”Why go to so much trouble for a bird?”
The sparrowhawk was dead: decapitated on its annual migration route from north to south.
Yue Hua’s heart felt heavy, but this wasn’t the first such tragedy this conservationist had seen over the last 10 days.
Original is a public WeChat account and the in-depth reporting column under Jiefang Daily.
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Ana Padilla Fornieles is a Spanish translator, writer and creative currently based in Beijing, where she is part of Spittoon International Arts Collective and a regular contributor to The Beijinger. You can find her prose and poetry featured in The Shanghai Literary Review, Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Womanhood, Sledgehammer and more. Her comics and linocut prints have appeared in Shaving in the Dark, F*EMS and Celestite Poetry. Her literary translation work has been published or is forthcoming with a series of publishing houses and magazines, such as Penguin, De Gruyter, Spittoon Magazine and Books from Taiwan.
