Fair Game?Animal Vulnerability and

Disasters in a Globalized World

Greg BankoffAssociate Professor, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland and

Visiting Professor of Disaster Management, Coventry University g.bankoff@auckland.ac.nz

Animal lives are lost in disasters

Dead Fish on beach after Tsunami, Teluk Bahang, Penang, Malaysia, December 2004

Animals are exposed to same risks

Without grass livestock are malnourished, Kenya 2006

Natural hazards

Lioness growling at a fire, Serengeti, Tanzania

Epizootics

African Swine Fever can be caused when animals eat contaminated garbage

Anthropogenic hazards

Abandoned domestic animals gone feral, Chernobyl Seclusion Zone, Ukraine

Animals & emergency management

Cattle skull, Australia

Disparity in the power relationship

Animal market, Indonesia

Social vulnerability

Livestock, Senegal

Domesticated animals

Deer farming, New Zealand

‘Caged’ animals

Wild animals

Crested Black Macaques

Different hazards in different ways

Someone’s property

Globalisation of disasters

Melting polar ice cap

Planetary-scale hazards

Carried far from their point source

Sea Otter cub coated in oil, Exxon Valdez spill, Prince William Sound, Alaska in 1989

Alterations in means of production

Pile of dead drowned pigs, Hurricane Floyd, 1999

Fair Game?

Supplying emergency cattle feed after earthquake, Gujarat, India