张掖环保当局批准国资风电项目：环评报告谎称濒危动物兔狲“不存在”
Zhangye environmental authorities approved state-backed wind farm after assessment falsely declared endangered desert cats absent
- 张掖市生态环境局甘州分局批准了一处100兆瓦风电场项目，尽管实地监测数据已证实该项目与濒危野生动物兔狲的核心繁育领地重叠。 The Zhangye Ecology and Environment Bureau Ganzhou Branch approved a 100-megawatt wind farm despite field data proving the project overlaps with core breeding territory of the endangered Pallas's cat.
- 该项目长达85页的环境影响评价报告坚称当地完全没有受保护野生动物，与民间环保组织“猫盟”连续五年的红外相机监测记录直接相左。 The project's 85-page Environmental Impact Assessment declared the area completely free of protected wildlife, directly contradicting five years of camera-trap telemetry from the civic Cat Alliance.
- 国企华润新能源在距离已记录的兔狲巢穴仅600米处浇筑风机混凝土基座；随后区级当局以项目处于法定生态红线之外为由，驳回了公众异议。 State-owned China Resources New Energy poured concrete turbine foundations within 600 meters of documented cat dens before district authorities dismissed public objections by claiming the site sat outside formal red lines.
据《南方周末》和凤凰新闻报道，在评审人员声称该荒漠地块完全没有保护动物后，甘肃省张掖市生态环境局草率批准了一份长达85页的国资风电项目环评报告。国企华润新能源的施工队伍直接开进平山湖浇筑风机基座，将八台巨型风机扎入国家濒危动物兔狲的核心繁殖领地之内。这些兔狲在官方报告中被直接抹去，而民间独立科研机构“猫盟”此前已连续五年利用红外相机记录到29只个体在这些山脊间活动。
这一操作手法依赖“监管洗白”，以在国家能源指令下强推工业建设。市级官僚采取“借口掩饰”，将栖息地破坏粉饰为清洁能源转型政绩，令人联想到此前地方官员为应付检查而用工业染料将荒山刷成绿色的“波将金式”政绩工程。当科研人员拿出证据证实风机切断了关键野生动物走廊时，当局便诉诸“官僚庇护”，坚称规划界线划在法定生态保护红线之外即属合法。纸面合规彻底取代了客观现实。
这场冲突暴露出威权指标如何掏空生态保护。党政管理者将千瓦装机指标置于物种生存之上，粗暴践踏数年来记录脆弱荒漠生态的基层科研人员。随着网信审查机构压制调查报道以庇护国资基建合同免受公众监督，公众清晰看到官方的绿色转型口号不过是一场空洞的官僚表演，而野生动物则成了政治账单的最终买单者。
The Zhangye Ecology and Environment Bureau in Gansu Province rubber-stamped an 85-page assessment for a state-backed wind farm after reviewers declared the desert site entirely free of protected wildlife, Southern Weekly and Phoenix News reported. Construction crews from state-owned China Resources New Energy poured turbine foundations directly across Pingshanhu, staking eight massive turbines within the core breeding territory of the endangered Pallas’s cat. The cats were simply erased. Independent researchers from the Cat Alliance had used camera traps to catalog twenty-nine individual cats navigating those exact ridges over five years.
This maneuver relies on regulatory whitewashing to speed industrial construction under national energy directives. Municipal bureaucrats deployed pretextual cloaking to disguise habitat destruction as clean energy progress, echoing prior Potemkin campaigns where local officials painted barren mountainsides green with industrial dye to pass inspections. When researchers proved the turbines blocked vital wildlife corridors, authorities resorted to bureaucratic shielding. They insisted the project remained lawful because planners drew boundary lines outside formal ecological reserves. Paper compliance replaces reality.
The clash exposes how authoritarian targets hollow out conservation. Party-state managers prioritize megawatt quotas over biological survival, running roughshod over grassroots scientists who spent years documenting fragile desert ecosystems. As cyberspace censors throttle investigative reports to shield state infrastructure contracts from public scrutiny, citizens see official green transition slogans exposed as an empty bureaucratic performance. Wildlife pays the political bill.
在微博和小红书上，《南方周末》的调查报道以及工业风机耸立在荒漠岩石兔狲栖息地上的现场照片，引发了舆论的激烈讽刺与愤慨。网民指出，民间环保组织“猫盟”已连续五年在该地追踪到29只兔狲个体，当地生态环境官员与国企华润新能源却声称85页的环评报告显示“无大型野生动物或重点保护动物”，荒谬至极。有评论者辛辣讽刺道：“只要装看不见，国家二级保护动物就不存在。”亦有网民指出绿色能源转型碾压脆弱生态的荒诞现实：“为了完成中央的绿色GDP指标，他们把真正的自然生态彻底毁了。”
On Weibo and Xiaohongshu, the Southern Weekly investigation and photos of industrial wind turbines towering over rocky desert habitats of Pallas's cats (*兔狲*) triggered virulent mockery and indignation. Netizens pointed out the absurdity of local ecology officials and state-owned China Resources New Energy claiming the 85-page assessment showed 'no large wild animals or key protected animals,' despite the Chinese conservation group Cat Alliance (*猫盟*) tracking 29 individual Pallas's cats in the exact location for five consecutive years. Commentators bitterly remarked: 'The cats aren't protected animals if the bureau simply unchecks the box' (*只要装看不见，国家二级保护动物就不存在*). Others noted the grim irony of green energy transitions paving over fragile biodiversity: 'They destroy the actual environment to hit central green GDP quotas.'
《南方周末》报道刊发后，甘肃省级网信部门与平台审查机构迅速介入以遏制事态发酵。在微博上，包括#荒漠风电项目建到兔狲家门口#与#张掖风电环评争议#在内的搜索话题均被从全国热搜榜单中压制。各大官方转载渠道的评论区被开启“评论精选”，以清除针对国企环境造假和官员贪腐渎职的指控。独立野生动物摄影师比对风机基座GPS坐标与红外相机监测点位的微博原帖亦遭到“幽灵封禁”（shadowban），禁止转发和站外分享。
Provincial cyberspace monitors and platform censors moved quickly to contain the fallout following the Southern Weekly report. On Weibo, search hashtags including #PallasCatHabitatOverlappedByWindTurbines# (*#荒漠风电项目建到兔狲家门口#*) and #GansuZhangyeWindFarmEIAControversy# (*#张掖风电环评争议#*) were suppressed from national trending rankings. Comment sections under state syndication channels were switched to 'curated comments' (*评论精选*) to scrub accusations of state-owned enterprise environmental fraud and official bribery. Original Weibo posts by independent wildlife photographers comparing GPS coordinates of turbine footings with camera trap detections were shadowbanned, preventing reposts and external sharing.
在习近平的“双碳”政策推动下，中国西北地方政府面临着在荒漠盆地安装数十吉瓦风电与光伏装机容量的严苛指令。为加快项目审批，市级发改部门常向配合度高的地方环评中介机构购买敷衍草率的环境影响评价，后者往往仅凭纸面资料审查，或刻意隐瞒敏感野生动物的存在。兔狲在《中国生物多样性红色名录》中被列为濒危物种，属国家二级保护动物，高度依赖干旱荒漠草原的岩石缝隙筑巢繁衍与觅食。尽管环保人士反复警告，重型风机施工噪音、运维道路对栖息地的割裂以及风机叶片撞击将重创这类荒漠顶级捕食者，但地方当局仍惯于将“生态保护红线”狭隘地局限在既有景区保护区之内，而将周边所有生物多样性廊道视为可为国资能源项目随意牺牲的“荒地”。
Under Xi Jinping's 'Dual Carbon' (*双碳*) campaign, local governments in northwestern China face aggressive central mandates to install tens of gigawatts of wind and photovoltaic capacity in desert basins. To accelerate project approvals, municipal development agencies frequently commission perfunctory Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) from compliant local consultancies that conduct desk-only reviews or intentionally omit sensitive wildlife. Pallas's cat (*Otocolobus manul*) is classified as endangered on the China Biodiversity Red List and holds Class II state protection, relying strictly on rocky crevices in arid steppes for denning and foraging. Despite warnings by conservationists that heavy turbine construction noise, service road fragmentation, and turbine strikes disrupt apex desert predators, municipal authorities routinely draw 'ecological red lines' (*生态保护红线*) narrowly around existing scenic reserves, treating all surrounding biodiversity corridors as disposable wasteland for state-capital energy projects.