Animals in Emergencies : Learning from the Christchurch earthquakes

ISBN: 9781927145500

Author: Annie Potts and Donelle Gadenne    Publisher: Canterbury University Press

After the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that shook Canterbury on 4 September 2010, the news media were quick to report, with understandable relief, that no lives had been lost. In fact, this first quake killed at least 3000 chickens, eight cows, one dog, a lemur and 150 aquarium fish, and that was only the first of a series of even m...