Report on Fishes Condition in Bukit Jalil Park & Kepong Metropolitan Park
Dear Rinpoche,
Please find the below report on the 2 parks for fish liberation.
1. Bukit Jalil Park
2. Kepong Metropolitan Park
1. Bukit Jalil Park
Bukit Jalil Recreation Park is located near the National Sports Complex. The park is large and beautiful, with hilly landscape and man-made ponds.
Site Visit:
Total there are 3 ponds of medium size compared to the one in Kepong or Taman Tun Dr Ismail. About 7 feet deep.We fed the turtles and catfish with bread at first in the hot morning and noon sun. They do not surface much. After we bought fish pallets and fed them – the catfish surfaced by many. They are small, medium and large in size. We saw quite a lot medium size fishes.They finished most of the fish pallets.
Was informed by the guard there is a lady who feed bread to the fishes every morning. On days not fed, pond-raised fish may consume some natural foods from the pond which may contribute to a small portion of the maintenance ration.
Proposal:
- To feed the fish every 2 weeks on a Sunday morning as a KC activity with KH members.
- Our first feeding will be on the 8th Aug (Sun).
2. Kepong Metropolitan Park (KH Fish Liberation Monthly Venue)
Kepong Metropolitan Park is located on the way to Batu Caves from Bandar Utama.
Site Visit:
The park is 20-24 hectare and the pond is 2/3rd of the size of park. It used to be a mining pond previously and the pond is well taken care of than Bukit Jalil.
Mr Rodzuan, the park manager has told Nicholas not to worry at all about the fishes we liberated from going hungry as the pond has it’s own plankton as they are natural food for them. Also, because the park is famous, there are a lot of regulars who feed the fishes everyday.
One thing good about this pond is that when we released the fishes, the fishes swam straight to the middle of the pond, away from the people who does fishing (Almost all park ie Taman Tun Park, Bukit Jalil Park…. which we have visited in the past we found people fishing even though there is a no fishing sign) and when we visited the pond every month, there are no sign of unhealthy or dead fishes.
Proposal:
- To feed the fish every 2 weeks also on a Sunday morning as a KC activity with KH members and friends. We will be feeding 180 small packets of fish food tomorrow during our KH family day. We are expecting 100 over people joining us.
- We will continue to liberate the fishes in a moderate amount still as we are confident that the pond has it’s natural food for the fishes and it has good maintenance by its management.
Thank you.
Regards,
Chuah Su Ming
Liaison of Tsem Ladrang
Head of Department of Kechara Care
TSEM LADRANG
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
(I am so glad to know the fishes we are releasing at the lakes are ok. I am so glad that Suming and group are monitoring the lakes so that we do not harm the eco system by releasing fish into these lakes with our animal liberation once a month. The good thing is that these lakes are huge and very big. Thank you for this wonderful report and it puts my mind at rest. Please continue the animal liberation and continue to monitor. Tsem Tulku)
It is wonderful that not only does Kechara organize such animal liberation activities, it also monitors that our actions do not cause any unbalance as doing so would counter balance the good merits.
This is indeed a good lesson in having to think through things thoroughly and not just doing it out of pure emotion. Sometimes gut feeling reactions may not be the best solution. We have to be conscious of our actions all the time even while trying to benefit others.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this simple but very pertinent aspect! Much love and with folded hands always!
Glad to know that the fishes are well.
Thanks Rinpoche for considering not only educating people to love lives, but also the surrounding we should take care of.
I realize that sometimes we seem doing something good, but it’s not when you zoom the picture out. As a Buddhist we should think before we do anything, aware of the consequences we might cause, so the it benefits more and have no harm in any angle.
Cheers!!
Thank you for sharing the story. I went to Kepong Metropolitan Park on my own last weekend armed with 1 KG of fish pellets. Because it was raining, I asked the people around to help me feed the fishes including the taxi driver. And so we did. It was a wonderful experiece
Valentina
Thank you Rinpoche for encouraging KH members to go to other ponds to feed fishes apart from TTDI park which had been initially used to liberate fishes by KH members releasing fishes into the TTDI pond where a lot of turtles also are released by other people. I used to go and feed the fishes and turtles once a week. As in this pond the fishes are always fished by Malays who frequent the park. In TTDI park there are lots of monkeys too. Sometimes I feed the monkeys at the same time that I feed the fishes and turtles. Since Kechara Care and KH members has found another fish pond site which is is Kepong Metropolitan Park which is a bigger pond where we can release more fishes. There are now 2 parks which KH can go and release fishes now. Bukit Jalil park and Kepong Metropolitan Park.
Agree with Andrew. We have to do our homework to ensure there are no downside to what we are doing here. Good intention alone is not enough.I do hear a lot of feedbacks from those who support animal liberation and those who do not.
For example,releasing birds. Some people said the birds meant for such purposes are packed tightly in wooden frames and netting and many are injured or die under such conditions.
A bucketful of young catfishes can later grow into huge adults which may upset the pond eco system.
Most of us are not experts in such matters but what SM is doing to check with those who have knowledge and also to conduct periodic monitoring is commendable and in right direction.if things are not working we can always stop,reduce the quantities or change to other species.
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