36 winter shelters and feeding stations on a tiny island inside a national park... I don't even want to guess the total stray cat population. Just looking at the photos, they're feeding them tons of kibble.
Somehow, Yonghodo is being sneakily promoted as a 'Cat Island' for tourism, but it wasn't originally developed for that purpose.
Actually, the Lanai Cat Sanctuary—which served as the model for the Tongyeong Cat School—is a private facility that isolates cats to protect native wild birds on the island. *That* is what real coexistence looks like.
A taxpayer-funded public 'Cat Island' that destroys the ecosystem... This is the reality of Korea, the world's only 'Cat Mom Republic.'
"Users are slamming the 'Cat Island' project as an ecological disaster fueled by 'Cat Mom' sentiment, pointing out the hypocrisy of ignoring wildlife destruction for the sake of stray cats."
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