Radioactive Boars in Fukushima Thwart Residents’ Plans to Return

>Photographs and video footage of the crisis-hit Japanese towns and villages are reminiscent of Chernobyl, where wildlife continues to thrive despite high radiation levels in the aftermath of the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986. With the absence of humans, Chernobyl, in Ukraine, has become a refuge for all kinds of animals, including moose, deer, brown bear, lynx and even wolves.

>Since the nuclear crisis in Fukushima in 2011, video footage taken by journalists has shown packs of badly unkempt dogs scampering across roads. Rat colonies have overrun abandoned supermarkets. Farmland, transformed into grassland, has become a perfect habitat for wild boars and foxes. Boars have caused about $854,000 in damage to agriculture in Fukushima prefecture, reported the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri.

>The local authorities in towns across Fukushima have hired teams of hunters to cull the boars. It is unclear whether those efforts will pay off, or whether they are enough to persuade former residents to return home.

>The authorities in the town of Tomioka say they have killed 800 so far, but officials there say that is not enough, according to the Japanese news media. The latest statistics show that in the three years since 2014, the number of boars killed in hunts has grown to 13,000 from 3,000.

>And in a government survey last year, more than half of Fukushima’s former residents said they wouldn’t return, citing fears over radiation and the safety of the nuclear plant, which will take 40 years to dismantle.

>The local Fukushima government recently published a guidebook of suggestions to help officials tackle the wild boar problem, including building special traps and using drones to ward off the animals.

>“It’s important to set up an environment that will make it tough for the boars to live in,” an official told the Yomiuri daily.
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>Elsewhere, the city of Nihonmatsu prepared three mass graves to dispose of 1,800 boars, but the local government says it is already running out of land.

>The city of Soma last year set up municipal incinerators specially designed to burn carcasses and filter out radioactive cesium. But the authorities said they lack the staff to stuff the animal parts down the furnace.

>"We need a strong hunting plan,” Hidekiyo Tachiya, the mayor of Soma, told the Asahi Shimbun at the opening of an incinerator last year. “I wish for the day to come when we can eat wild game again.”

>>120256
this is why nips need AR's. oink would be removed swiftly if they just took potshots at them

just send in some texans. they do this every year minus the radiation

Well, now they finally have a use for their army.

>>120281
Aussies too. It's their official excuse for owning guns anyway

>>120292

Boar War will just be a repeat of the Emu War but with boars. I can't wait for the radiation to make them big enough to be driftable.

>>120256
is anyone else thinking that this is a great way to remove cesium-137 from the environment, just the same as planting sunflowers to soak up other radioactive isotopes

leave the piggsy alone for a few decades and then repopulate once the area is safer also where will then be plenty of boars to farm once the cesium-137 levels decrease enough

>>120542
>planting sunflowers
there are always unintended consequences to introducing a non-native invasive plant species on a large scale.

>>120561
pretty sure sunflowers have been in japan for centuries mate

>>120563
Is that true? I thought the were native to north and central america. I guess I'd have to ask a jap how long they've been over there.

>>120256

Orcs when?

>>120264
bullets dont remove the highly radioactive waste that just trudged across the lawn your kids play on.

>>120568
>Japan
>Kids
>Lawn

U wot m8?

>>120566
they've had them since at least the 1800's

>>120561
YEAH WE BETTER LEAVE THAT RADIATION ALONE WHO KNOWS WHAT COULD HAPPEN FROM SOME FUCKING SUNFLOWERS LOL

So you're telling me there's a bunch of pigs running around that are all already microwaved?

Just shoot them and tuck in.