Japanese Government: Let People's Pets DIE
Tell Japan to Allow Animal Rescuers into the Exclusion Zone
THE DEADLINE FOR THEIR LAST CHANCE IS MARCH 20TH
From LCA:
"Last Chance for Animals (LCA) was the first animal rescue team to enter the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone after the devastating March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. One year later, the Government of Japan (GOJ) is the biggest barrier to animal welfare groups trying to rescue the estimated 5,000 cats, over 1,000 dogs, and countless farm animals still suffering. In many cases, the animals have been left to fend for themselves through another punishing winter with no shelter, inadequate and contaminated food and water.
The people displaced by the tsunami have been forced to endure the sadness of the disaster for a year now, and they are unable to move on because they are clinging to the hope that their best friends will be found and rescued," says one of LCA's rescuers.
The GOJ has thus far tried to prevent animal rescue organizations, including LCA, from entering the exclusion zone, the 12 kilometer area surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. However, LCA 's rescue team has slipped around police barricades, talked their way out of imminent arrest, and managed to rescue 435 animals. Many of the animals have been reunited with their guardians. Some animals who lost their guardians are being cared for and placed into new loving homes by local rescue and sheltering groups.
The GOJ has announced that as of the end of the month of March, 2012 all pigs and cows left in the zone will be killed. The GOJ has also instructed government workers to round up and capture animals who are then either shot, killed in inhumane pressure chambers, or handed over to vivisection labs where government scientist conduct radiation exposure experiments on them.
To make matters even worse the GOJ has decided to attempt an "all at once" rescue of any animals left in the zone to be carried out by government agencies ONLY. The GOJ is denying access to private rescue groups and volunteer veterinarians who can make sure more animals are actually rescued and reunited with their families. Government workers do not have the proper training to rescue these animals and there is no time to waste. Thousands of lives have already been lost because of the ineffectiveness of the government-run rescue attempts. The private rescue groups, shelters, and veterinarians have first-hand experience in the zone and have already rescued hundreds of animals. These experienced personnel must be permitted to join forces and work with GOJ employees to ensure a successful mass rescue."
Please sign the petition, if you are so inclined:
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-japan-ministry-of-environment-moe-%E8%AA%B0%E3%81%AB%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E7%92%B0%E5%A2%83%E5%BA%81-allowing-private-groups-to-rescue-animals
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