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2020年9月16日—TaiwaneseLeopardCat(Prionailurusbengalensischinensis)istheonlylivingnativespeciesofFeloidea(wildcat)inTaiwan.LeopardCatis ...

Katya Molodtsova, a Shutterstock contributor, drew an illustration of a Leopard and made it to the headlines of Taiwan’s media in 2019. The controversy begins with the “illustration of a Leopard”. The Tourism Bureau and Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) hired a designer, Chiang Meng-chih, to design the trains of the Jiji Line as a “leopard cat” conservation project.

Chiang Meng-chih then purchased the Leopard illustrations from Shutterstuck (she admitted later) as leopard cat and put in her design for the interior of the train. “Wow! I didn’t expect to see my illustration in such news. And yes, when I drew this illustration, it was just a Leopard, not a Leopard Cat.” Katya said when she found out that her illustrations have been used.

After all these, Katya realized why this “Leopard Cat” is so important to Taiwan. “I studied a lot of information about the Leopard Ca...