Zhangye environmental officials rubber-stamp wind farm inside endangered Pallas's cat stronghold after assessment claims zero wildlife
张掖环保官员违规放行兔狲核心栖息地风电项目，环评报告谎称施工区“无重点保护野生动物”
- The Ganzhou District Ecology and Environment Bureau in Zhangye approved a 100-megawatt wind power project in Cailongling whose environmental impact assessment claimed the desert stronghold contained 'zero key protected wildlife species.' 张掖市甘州区生态环境局审批了位于彩龙岭的100兆瓦风电项目，其获批环评报告竟公然声称这一荒漠生态要地“无重点保护野生动植物”。
- Multi-year infrared camera telemetry by the Chinese Felid Conservation Alliance proved the construction zone sits atop one of the world's densest breeding habitats for the Class-II protected Pallas's cat, Asian houbara bustard, and black stork. 中国猫科动物保护联盟（猫盟）多年的红外相机监测数据证实，施工区域正处于国家二级保护动物兔狲以及黑鹳、波斑鸨在全球密度最高的繁殖与活动生境之一。
- Rather than halting unpermitted turbine foundation work, cyberspace censors wiped the conservation group's viral WeChat exposés into 404 errors while local officials declared the project 'compliant with regulations.' 面对涉嫌违规施工的风机基坑，地方监管当局未予叫停，反称项目“合规合法”；与此同时，网信审查机构迅速将环保机构引发轰动的微信调查长文全网抹除封杀。
The Ganzhou District branch of the Zhangye Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau issued an official bulletin defending a 100-megawatt wind power project that bulldozed the core breeding grounds of endangered Pallas’s cats in Gansu Province, Phoenix News and Sohu reported. The bulldozers never stopped. Multi-year infrared camera arrays operated by the Chinese Felid Conservation Alliance documented dense populations of Class-II protected Pallas’s cats, black storks, and houbara bustards across the Cailongling desert ridge, yet the developer’s approved environmental impact assessment certified that the construction zone held “zero key protected wildlife species.”
The rubber-stamped approval exposes how Beijing’s green infrastructure push relies on Bureaucratic Data Falsification whenever ecological realities obstruct municipal investment quotas. Just as local authorities in Shanxi previously shielded state coal contractors who blasted through Ming Dynasty Great Wall ramparts, Zhangye regulators engaged in Potemkin Environmental Governance—citing adherence to red-line map boundaries on paper while ignoring field telemetry showing turbine foundations poured off-coordinate directly across wildlife corridors. When conservationists published the coordinate discrepancies and camera-trap proofs, authorities answered with Diagnostic Censorship, wiping the alliance’s WeChat reports into 404 error pages rather than halting the excavators.
Chinese environmental law reserves its teeth for the powerless. Courts routinely hand down multi-year prison sentences to rural farmers who pick wild orchids or trap a single protected bird, yet state-backed energy consortiums can level an entire endangered ecosystem behind a fraudulent consultancy PDF. When administrative legitimacy rests on hitting top-down construction targets, ecological law becomes a stage prop—and silencing the witnesses is faster than moving a single turbine.
据凤凰网与搜狐网报道，张掖市生态环境局甘州分局发布官方通报，极力为甘肃省一处推平珍稀濒危兔狲核心繁育地带的100兆瓦风电项目站台辩护。然而，施工现场的推土机从未停歇。中国猫科动物保护联盟布设多年的红外相机阵列明确证实，彩龙岭荒漠山脊栖息着高密度的国家二级保护动物兔狲，以及黑鹳、波斑鸨等珍稀物种；然而，开发商所获批的环境影响评价报告却公然白纸黑字认定，拟建工程区域“无重点保护野生动植物”。
这种走过场的审批机制暴露出，一旦生态现实阻碍了地方政府的固定资产投资指标，北京力推的绿色基建便会高度依赖官僚式数据造假。正如山西地方当局此前庇护炸毁明长城遗址的国有煤矿施工方一样，张掖监管机构大搞波将金式生态治理——在纸面上宣称严格遵守生态红线图界，却对野外遥测数据和偏离审批坐标、直接切断野生动物廊道浇筑的风机机位视若无睹。当民间动保人士公布坐标偏差与红外相机铁证时，当局则祭出靶向定点审查，并未叫停现场挖掘机，反倒迅速将猫盟的微信调查长文尽数抹除为404错误页面。
中国的生态环保法往往只对无权无势的底层露出獠牙。司法机关惯于因村民采摘几株野生兰花或捕获一只保护鸟类而判处数年实刑，但国有能源联合体仅凭一份造假的咨询机构PDF报告，就能将整个濒危物种生态系统夷为平地。当行政合法性完全维系于完成自上而下的工程考核目标时，生态法治便沦为粉饰政绩的舞台道具——而勒令见证者噤声，远比挪动哪怕一台风机的机位来得更容易。
Before the WeChat articles were deleted, tens of thousands of Chinese netizens and conservation volunteers shared infrared camera photos of Pallas's cats peering into lenses right where excavators were digging turbine pits. Commenters on Weibo and Zhihu mocked the environmental impact report's claim of 'zero protected species,' with one top comment reading: 'If an ordinary villager catches a single Pallas's cat or digs up a protected plant, they get ten years in prison; when a state-backed energy company bulldozes their entire breeding ground, the experts suddenly go blind and declare the desert empty.' Others pointed out that several turbine foundations were poured off-plan from their approved coordinates without any regulatory penalty.
在微信长文遭审查删除之前，数以万计的中国网民与生态保护志愿者在社交平台上接力转发红外相机拍下的兔狲凝视镜头的画面——而画面的拍摄点正是挖掘机正在开挖的风机基坑。微博与知乎上的网民对环评报告中“无重点保护物种”的说辞极尽嘲讽，一条高赞热评写道：“普通老百姓抓一只兔狲、挖一株保护植物要判十年；国有背景的能源公司把整个核心繁殖地夷为平地，专家就全瞎了眼，公然把荒漠宣布为空白地带。”还有网民指出，部分风机基座的实际浇筑坐标与审批规划严重偏离，却未受到地方监管部门任何问责与处罚。
As public outrage mounted in mid-October 2026, Cyberspace Administration censors deleted multiple viral investigative reports published on WeChat by the Chinese Felid Conservation Alliance (CFCA / 猫盟), including 'Cailongling: Eight Wind Turbines and a High-Density Pallas's Cat Population' and 'In the Zhangye Pallas's Cat Hometown, the EIA Says There Are No Pallas's Cats Here.' Clicking the shared links returned 404 takedown notices ('content removed due to rule violations'). Meanwhile, construction crews continued pouring concrete during the purported official investigation.
随着公众舆论在2026年10月中旬持续发酵，网信审查部门迅速下架了中国猫科动物保护联盟（猫盟 CFCA）在微信公众号上发布的数篇轰动性调查报告，包括《彩龙岭：8台风机与高密度兔狲种群》和《张掖兔狲的家乡，环评说这里没有兔狲》。用户点击传播链接均显示“此内容因违规无法查看”的404删除提示。与此同时，在地方当局宣称展开所谓“官方调查”期间，现场施工队仍在昼夜不停地浇筑混凝土机位基座。
Located in Pingshanhu Mongol Township in Gansu's Zhangye municipality, the Cailongling desert ridge hosts China's highest documented density of Pallas's cats (Otocolobus manul, 兔狲), a Class-II nationally protected species, alongside Class-I protected black storks and houbara bustards. The 100-megawatt wind farm received environmental approval in March 2025 and broke ground in July 2026. Under China's environmental assessment system, local developers routinely hire captive consultancy agencies to produce rubber-stamp 'zero-wildlife' reports so municipal authorities can hit green-energy GDP investment quotas without ecological review delays.
彩龙岭山脊位于甘肃省张掖市平山湖蒙古族乡，拥有中国有记录以来种群密度最高的国家二级重点保护野生动物兔狲（Otocolobus manul），并栖息着国家一级保护动物黑鹳和波斑鸨。该100兆瓦风电项目于2025年3月通过环评审批，并于2026年7月破土动工。在中国现行的环评体制下，地方开发商通常雇佣依附于体制的“御用”环评咨询机构，炮制走过场的“零野生动物”报告，以便地方政府不受生态审查阻碍、顺利达成绿色能源投资与GDP考核指标。