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Kinship Circle Animal Disaster Response Team
Japan Earthquake ▪ Tsunami ▪ Radiation Crisis
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Future Looks Uncertain For Japan’s Animals
SEPT - AUG, 2011 — PHOTOS (C) KINSHIP CIRCLE, JAPAN 2011. Kinship Circle’s Adrienne Usher returns to Japan for animals still suffering in the aftermath of an earthquake-tsunami. A Fukushima nuclear plant shattered in the March disaster releases radiation hot spots 20 to 50 kilometers away. Entire communities evacuate, leaving hundreds to thousands of animals stranded without food, water or care. Adrienne calls similarities between post-disaster Katrina and Japan staggering. "A primary difference is that Japanese government has declared an official ’end date’ for aid, ironically on 9/11. But for animals, the crisis has barely entered phase 2." JEARS leader Susan Roberts and Selena Hoy oversee the Club Lohas Dog Cafe — a hotel in Inawashiro, Fukushima whose owner has rented rooms and use of her grounds for volunteers and animals since May. It’s an interim shelter and veterinary aid stop — where hundreds of animals abandoned, orphaned, or temporarily surrendered live. Domesticated animals need people to survive. Therefore, the future for companion and farmed animals remains uncertain… READ MORE ■ CLICK ON PHOTO THUMBS TO VIEW LARGE
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Animals Left In The Shadows Of Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
AUGUST 1 - 31, 2011 — PHOTOS (C) KINSHIP CIRCLE, JAPAN 2011. Kinship Circle still assists JEARS, with hope to send veterinary trained volunteers through the fall. We know Japan’s earthquake-tsunami has fallen from news headlines. But evacuations related to the shattered nuclear reactor are ongoing. Please help us ensure these innocent creatures are not forgotten. Dogs roam. Cats wait along roads. Chickens and cows hang on till our next food drop. A radiation no-go zone is still sealed with animals trapped inside. Individuals recently entered the 20km zone. They accompanied the government-authorized Veterinary Association for Fukushima Animals. JEARS and Kinship Circle are in touch with VAFA. We are not at liberty to publish details about 20km rescue at this time. Meanwhile, many animals struggle in areas a bit further from the nuclear reactor. There are no plans to end emergency operations at the Inawashiro, Fukushima shelter. With animals roaming disaster areas, JEARS and Kinship Circle leave food and retrieve those who are sick, injured, or clearly discarded… READ MORE ■ CLICK ON PHOTO THUMBS TO VIEW LARGE
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Ongoing Evacuations Create Ghost Towns With Trapped Animals
JULY 5 - 30, 2011 — PHOTOS (C) KINSHIP CIRCLE, JAPAN 2011. JEARS and Kinship Circle volunteers, along with as many as 60 animals at times, occupy two rented rooms at the Club Lohas Hotel in Inawashiro, Fukushima. Nicknamed "Fukushima House," this hotel is run by an animal lover… Cats roam the 20-30km area around Fukushima’s nuclear reactor. Dogs wait on porches for people who won’t return. Food drops are scarce. Locals don't get here much anymore. On a routine trip to feed hundreds of cast off chickens in Namie, we see many cats at the road's edge. We trap 6 without the usual feline chase. Weak dogs come easily too. It's like they know there is nowhere else to go… READ MORE ■ CLICK ON PHOTO THUMBS TO VIEW LARGE
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Did Someone Hit The Rewind Button On Crisis For Animals?
JUNE 2 - JULY 4, 2011 — PHOTOS (C) KINSHIP CIRCLE, JAPAN 2011. Kinship Circle Extends Japan Animal Aid Through July: It’s nearly July and most of Iitate (in Fukushima Prefecture) has just evacuated...with an untold number of animals left behind. This recent evacuation represents why Kinship Circle is still in Japan, after deploying in March to aid animals in a 9.0 earthquake and tsunamis along nearly 500 miles of northeastern coast. The real crisis for Japan animals is the ongoing displacement of people. The shattered Fukushima Dai-ichi reactor continues to send radioactive hot-spots as far as 50km away. Police barricades go up every time a new district evacuates. The 20km exclusion zone has been sealed under nuclear emergency law since April. Thousands of farmed and companion animals were trapped without food, water or care in Futuba District ghost towns... Kinship Circle-JEARS teams race against the clock to preemptively rescue animals before even more are stranded in Japan's ongoing radiation exodus. In the 20-30km radius aroundthe reactor, we've reached hundreds of animals who would have otherwise died… READ MORE ■ CLICK ON PHOTO THUMBS TO VIEW LARGE
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We Are Witness: Japan’s Radiation Exclusion Zone
MAY 16 - JUNE 1, 2011 — PHOTOS (C) KINSHIP CIRCLE, JAPAN 2011. She lies on her side, eyes wide with fear. Her utter is inflamed and bones protrude. She is dying. We have hay for her, but it is too late. Once a cow is "down" organs compress against organs and slowly shut down. She breathes in ragged spurts and her body shakes. I kneel down to stroke her beautiful and bewildered face. My voice calms her, so I ask if she'd been a mother. "It’s okay, you can let go now. Please sleep, so it won’t hurt any more." When I shift positions, the downed cow struggles to stand. Does she know my tears are for her? Does she know that in her final glimpse, she is not alone? READ MORE ■ CLICK ON PHOTO THUMBS TO VIEW LARGE
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Japan Radiation Crisis: Lives Unseen In Nuclear Ghost Towns
MAY 1 - 15, 2011 — PHOTOS (C) KINSHIP CIRCLE, JAPAN 2011. Starving. Scared. Waiting. Animals are trapped in evacuated cities inside a 20km (soon to expand to 30km) radius around Fukushima’s shattered nuclear power plant. Since a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami crushed over 400 miles of northeastern Japan coast, the damaged plant continues to emit inivisible rays. Residents are gone. But life is evident. Some 4,000 cows, 31,000 pigs, 630,000 chickens, 100 horses — along with 5,800 registered dogs and an unknown number of cats — live unseen. They are without food, water, care or comfort… READ MORE ■ CLICK ON PHOTO THUMBS TO VIEW LARGE
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Aid Sought For Animals In Exclusion Zone, As Time Runs Out
APRIL 16 - 30, 2011 — PHOTOS (C) KINSHIP CIRCLE, JAPAN 2011. Domesticated animals are trapped inside a 20 to 30-kilometer radius around Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant. Under enforced nuclear emergency law, animal rescue groups and residents cannot evacuate animals. There are some 3,400 cows, 31,000 pigs, 630,000 chickens, and an unknown number of companion animals left to starve. All are tame animals who require human intervention to survive.… READ MORE ■; CLICK ON PHOTO THUMBS TO VIEW LARGE
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Cats, Cows, Dogs…And More Dazed Animals In Empty Cities
APRIL 4 - 15, 2011 — PHOTOS (C) KINSHIP CIRCLE, JAPAN 2011. We visit an evacuation site housing over 2000 people. Administrators at the no-pets facility reserved a room for animals when some evacuees refused to part with their companions. One emaciated dog with diabetes is unlikely to make it, but nontheless happy to be with his person. Kinship Circle-JEARS volunteers deliver food, animal bedding and cat litter. Evacuees have nothing for animals… READ MORE ■; CLICK ON PHOTO THUMBS TO VIEW LARGE
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Kinship Circle Finds Life In Deserted Cities
MARCH 26 - APRIL 3, 2011 — PHOTOS (C) KINSHIP CIRCLE, JAPAN 2011. Kinship Circle, Japan 2011. Each day, Kinship Circle executive director Brenda Shoss leads a Skype briefing to reveiw/plan three main animal disaster response components in Japan: Food delivery and care for animals outside some 2,000 evacuation centers; search and rescue for tsuanmi/quake animal victims in wreckage; and rescue/shelter for animals trapped in the evacuated radiation exclusion zone.… READ MORE ■; CLICK ON PHOTO THUMBS TO VIEW LARGE
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