A sanctuary founded by a farmer in western Taiwan is saving old water buffalo from slaughter while educating people about the animal's contribution to pre-mechanized agriculture.
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00:00A retirement home for water buffalo in western Taiwan is saving the domestic animal from
00:05being slaughtered.
00:07Its founder, Lin Jialiang, has saved three of the animals so far and says he has applied
00:12to expand his facilities to take in at least 12.
00:16Lin's been able to sustain his retirement home by selling homegrown rice.
00:20He says he hopes the sanctuary will help educate people about the domestic water buffalo and
00:24traditional agriculture.
00:26Water buffalo are once widely used as working animals before farming became mechanized.