According to the news of “Fuyang Release” on May 10, the Fuyang District Bureau of the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau filed an investigation into the suspected crime of the “leopard escape incident” related to Hangzhou Wildlife World Co., Ltd. personnel. On May 10, the legal representative of the company was filed. 5. Five people including general manager Zhang Dequan took criminal coercive measures.

The case is currently under further investigation.

  Up to now, the three Leopards that fled from Hangzhou Wildlife World have been captured and returned to two. One is still at large, and all parties are still searching for it.

But when did the three leopards escape?

There is still no clear answer yet.

  As early as May 1, Zhu Caisong, a villager in Longmenkan Village, Zhuantang Street, Xihu District, Hangzhou, took a photo of a suspected leopard. Does this mean that the leopard’s escape date was on or before May 1?

  The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) inquired and found that during the May 1st holiday this year, Hangzhou Wildlife World opened as usual, welcoming nearly 100,000 tourists.

Even after the media took photos of the suspected leopard on May 6, The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) also interviewed the relevant person in charge of Hangzhou Wildlife World and was told that "there has been no animal escape."

On May 7, Hangzhou Wildlife World's WeChat official account also launched a Mother's Day planning activity to solicit customers.

  On May 6, Hangzhou’s Qianjiang Evening News interviewed Zhou Jiajun, an animal expert from the Zhejiang Forest Resources Monitoring Center when reporting the suspected leopard incident. After expert identification, from the photo, the cat family was photographed in the forest of Zhuantang Mountain. The animal should be a leopard, but there has been no record of a leopard in Hangzhou city for nearly 20 years.

  "After lunch on May 1st, I found a leopard while fertilizing on Chashan, and I took two photos of the leopard with my mobile phone. I used an elderly camera, and I was nervous at the time, and the photos were a bit blurry. I didn’t send the photos on the Internet. My old phone cannot send photos. After I told the villagers about this, someone took a photo of the leopard from my mobile phone and posted it on the Internet. I didn’t call the police myself. Someone When I was eating in a restaurant and talked about seeing a leopard, the owner of the restaurant called the police." Zhu Caisong told The Paper.

  Zhu Caisong took photos of the suspected leopard in Longmenkan Village, Zhuantang Street, Xihu District, located in the northeast foothills of the Wuchao Mountains.

The southwest foothills of the Wuchao Mountains, with a straight-line distance of less than 10 kilometers, is the Hangzhou Wildlife World in Yinhu Street, Fuyang District. On May 1, when Zhu Caisong took photos of the suspected leopard, "Hangye" was busy receiving the May Day holiday Tourists from all directions come in droves.

  The "Fuyang District "May Day" Holiday Tourism Market Summary" published on the official website of the Fuyang District Government of Hangzhou on May 6 showed that scenic spots above 4A in the district received 133,200 tourists, an increase of 164.81% year-on-year.

The Hangzhou Wildlife World Animal Customs Exhibition, forest trains, interactive performance shows and other programs have attracted a large number of parent-child families and received 97,700 tourists during the holiday.

  The ticket price of Hangzhou Wildlife World is 220 yuan/person for adults, 140 yuan/person for children and seniors, and 180 yuan/person for college students with a license.

If calculated according to the median fare, Hangzhou Wildlife World’s May Day holiday alone may reach 17 million yuan in ticket revenue.

  On the morning of May 8, "Hangzhou Release" Douyin released a 10-second video, in which a cat suspected of a leopard roaming around a tree; the official account of Hangzhou Wildlife World released the "Announcement of Closing the Garden" ", said that due to safety issues in the park, it needs to be handled and maintained in a timely manner, so it is temporarily closed.

However, at noon on the 8th, when the journalists checked again, they found that the above two contents had been deleted.

Since then, there have been media reports that a suspected leopard was found near the Jinyuanshanzhuang community in Fuyang District, Hangzhou on the evening of the 7th, which is only 1.4 kilometers away from Hangzhou Wildlife World.

  While everyone was speculating whether the leopard found in Longmenkan Village, Zhuantang Street, Xihu District, was the same leopard that appeared in Jinyuanshanzhuang Community, Fuyang District, the official WeChat account of Fuyang District Government Press Office "Fuyang Release" issued a notice on the afternoon of the 8th: 7 At 20 o'clock on the same day, the public reported that a suspected leopard was found at Jinyuan Villa in Silian Village, Shoujiang Street, Yinhu Street. After investigation by relevant district departments, it was determined that three underage leopards had escaped from Hangzhou Wildlife World, and one was captured and recovered.

Subsequently, "Fuyang issued" a notification that at about 17 o'clock that day, it was discovered and successfully anesthetized and captured an underage leopard that had escaped from Hangzhou Wildlife World in the forest next to Jinyuan Villa, Yinhu Street, Fuyang District, Hangzhou.

  Since then, the forests near Longmenkan Village, Zhuantang Street, Xihu District, have become a key area for hunting out Leopards.

In the past few days, more than 4000 people including public security, militia, village (community) officials and people have patrolled the surrounding areas of leopards, and more than 270 people including special police, forest rangers, professional rescue teams, and zoo staff, and 70 thermal imaging drones. The remaining sorties, 37 hunting dogs (search and rescue dogs), carried out a dragnet investigation of possible areas.

  On the afternoon and evening of May 9, Zhou Jiangyong, member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, went to Hangzhou Wildlife World in Fuyang District, and Hejia Village, Zhuantang Street, Xihu District, to supervise and guide the handling of leopard escape, listen to work reports on site, and view Hangzhou Wildlife The rectification situation of Animal World.

  The Paper has learned that in the past few days, traces of suspected leopards have been found in Guangming Temple, Hejia Village, Zhuantang Street, Xishan Forest Park of Shangchengdai Village, and Longmenkan Village, and the search is still ongoing.

  In addition to the third Leopard that is still being searched, in this "Leopard Escape Incident", when did the leopard escape from "Hangye", how did it escape, what management loopholes existed in "Hangye", and the accountability of related persons responsible, etc. The problem remains to be solved.

  Ge Rongjin, chief reporter of The Paper