Infected wild boar flooded Fukushima street

The swarm of wild pigs swarming from the mountains to penetrate abandoned areas after the earthquake and tsunami caused a nuclear disaster in Fukushima.

Wild boars wandering in abandoned streets inside the area blockade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan so much that the local government has to hire hunters to eradicate them, the International Business Times reported on March 9.

Similar to the blockade of Cherbonyl, the number of wild animals here skyrocketed when people were absent.The animals that live in the mountains flooded the residential area to replace people after residents were forced to leave their homes due to earthquakes and tsunamis accompanied by a nuclear disaster in March 2011.

The population of wild boars in Fukushima proliferate rapidly and comfortably feed on the streets and gardens.Many people here do not dare to return home after the disaster because of fear of being attacked by wild boar.

"After everyone left, the wild boar's ecosystem changed. They started to overflow from the mountain and will not withdraw. They found a comfortable place with plenty of food and no one else. Now, this is their new home and the place where the offspring are born , " said Shoichiro Sakamoto, the hunter.

Before the disaster, Sakamoto and colleagues caught about 50 wild boars a year, mainly in remote mountain areas.From April last year to February of this year, they caught about 300 children separately in Tomioka district.

Twice a week, Sakamoto's group put more than 30 cage traps in Tomioka.Hunters use air guns to kill wild boars, then load them on trucks and transport them to a storage facility where the bodies are decomposed by bacteria.

The wild boar in Fukushima is classified as inappropriate for human consumption because their meat is highly radioactive, because they eat radioactive plants and tubers around the disaster area.

Research at Fukushima shows that out of 208 wild boars captured from 2016 to early 2017, about 106 birds were found to have high levels exceeding the radiation safety standard of 100 becquerel / kg by the Japanese government. promulgate.Some animals have a measured amount of up to 13,000 Bq / kg.