An environmental campaigner has shelved plans to publish a calendar of Lantau's feral buffalo and cattle - after too few animals were willing to pose for the camera.
Members of the Living Islands Movement were invited to submit photos of their favourite bovines grazing at Lantau beauty spots for the calendar, being prepared by retired civil servant Clive Noffke to promote appreciation and concern for the declining herds.
Although he received lots of photos of buffalo, few showed good scenery or feral cattle.
Concern for Lantau's buffalo and cattle was triggered in April when 16 animals died en route to the government's animal management centre in Sheung Shui after they were rounded up following complaints from villagers.
The group estimates the number of cattle and buffalo on Lantau at between 75 and 100 for each species, based on a survey that had counted 72 cattle and 46 buffalo.
But Mr Noffke, who at his own cost recently published a leaflet on feral cattle that was circulated to 20 schools, said recent hot weather - not a lack of animals to photograph - had scuppered his plans for a non-profit calendar.
