Nature Reclaims Fukushima
More than a decade after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdowns, wildlife populations are growing across the evacuated landscape, with animals damaging the places humans used to live.
Fukushima Minpo reports that cities and farms in the exclusion zone are also becoming overgrown with vegetation. This makes it difficult for evacuees to consider returning to their homes. “It hurts to see my house ravaged by animals,” said 65-year-old Hiromi Aizawa, who evacuated from the town of Okuma.
Killing or capturing the animals for food is not an option. A recent study found that radioactive caesium in some of the birds, deer and wild boars caught across Fukushima prefecture exceeds safety standards. The government restricts the shipment of animals captured there to areas outside the contaminated zone.
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