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We have continuously delivered news that it is difficult to get out once falling into the concrete farming canal, and the lives of wild animals are threatened.
To address this issue, the government has decided to come up with guidelines for installing escape routes in concrete farming waterways within this year.
Reporter Lee Yong-sik.
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is a concrete farming waterway in Dangjin, Chungnam.
In January, two elk are running around the floor in frozen farming water.
It was blocked by the wall with high agricultural water, so it was impossible to come or go.
Fortunately, the elk were able to return to the wild thanks to the dispatch of the rescue team.
[Kim Li-Hyun/Chungnam Wildlife Rescue Center Rehabilitation Manager: I came down to drink water, but the farming
canal is
a vertical high wall made of concrete, so it cannot come out again, so damage is happening.]
But, I am not lucky every time.
[Jung Sang-jin/Resident: It's a pity that I'm dead, and people can't come out when they fall out,
and there's nowhere to
come out.]
The farming waterway here is large enough to be 10m wide and 2.4m deep, but you can find escape routes for wild animals anywhere. You can not.
There is a poor fall protection fence, but it is mana.
The country's concrete agricultural waterway managed by the Rural Community Corporation is 51,000km, of which only 2% of the total, or 1,000km, has an escape route.
The Rural Community Corporation is giving up because it is not obligatory to install an escape route.
As wild animal damage continued, the Ministry of Environment completed a research service to establish an escape route in August of last year.
By the end of this year, we also decided to set up specific guidelines on how to create an escape route according to the type of farming waterway.
However, there are voices that the law needs to be revised rather than the non-binding guidelines to reduce the damage.
(Video coverage: Kang Yun-gu and Kim Min-cheol, screen courtesy: Chungnam Wildlife Rescue Center)