Volunteers deep into the evacuated area around the nuclear plant to retrieve pets that their owners had to leave behind
Although the term has made his fortune, the evacuated area around the Fukushima nuclear power is a dead zone. Humans left, right, had to leave behind homes and other possessions as a measure was drawing on the map the likely extent of radioactive poison. But they were so excluded from evacuation plans as furniture or appliances: dogs, cats, cattle ... The photographers who venture into the forbidden territory of the world have shown this to these animals, orphans, people who cared. There are packs of dogs with collars on the streets deserted, cats that provide the outside from the windows of their prison, cows dying in blocks to which no one takes and think ... The protocols did not provide for their evacuation, nor setting out measures for their care. And while it may seem a trivial sentimentality after a disaster that has left 14,000 dead and many missing, owners are tortured in shelters to think what fate awaits those abandoned animals in the contaminated area. Many, when they left their villages, they believed they would be back in a couple of days.
The situation has led to several partnerships to take action on the matter. His teams get deep into the exclusion zone to rescue pets: they are action commands faster than putting them at risk for the welfare of animals and owners. People evicted from their homes give them the address and details of your dog or cat is normal, before leaving, have left at its disposal all the available food, and volunteers try to retrieve them. Either one of those press reports put them on the trail of an animal that is going wrong. Although there are also, finally, to be carrying all the animals they encounter in their journey through the urban wilds, so like post-apocalyptic landscape of fiction.
As a vision
The most notable case was that of the 'shelties' of Minamisoma, a beautiful group of animals of that breed, sheepdog Shetland Islands, reminiscent of a small 'collies'-that roamed the streets and met with the Associated Press photographers. The publication of the images, like a vision in the middle of nowhere, unleashed a full investigation that allowed us to locate its owner, a farmer received in a shelter. Ten members of the association Sheltie Rescue came in the car and managed to pick up twenty copies, but several who fled their rescuers.
Some volunteers are looking reliable equipment, but others are protected with simple plastic anoraks. "There is a risk, but it's worth run it to change what I can get, "summarizes Isabella Gallaon-Aoki, founder of Friends of Animals of Niigata, who has been with two other coalition organizations and Support Support Animals Japan Earthquake (JEARS, for its acronym in English). The authorities, who do not provide welcome many forays into the evacuated area, this week banned access and punish anyone who exceeds the perimeter without permission. The advocacy groups also animals struggle between them, as some voices emphasize the danger that an animal is finished transferring contaminated: the main associations measure the radiation from pets that recover, but there is growing suspicion that grow alongside the rescuers no known affiliation.
in shelters, people who disobeyed the official instructions and did take their pets are forced to take them off site, tied to a pole or inside cars. Some evacuees spent more time there, with their dogs inside the shelter, looking at his company lost the warmth of home. And they welcome every day for not having been left behind in the empty house, waiting for a master who had never taken so long to return.
Source: eldiariomontanes.es
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