BellingenNSW<p>Community Efforts to Care for Animals During Climate Disasters: <br>Experiences and Recommendations from an Australian Bushfire Affected Region</p><p>"Formal disaster prevention, preparation, risk management, and response remain highly anthropocentric, with non-human animals afforded minimal attention, resourcing, and support. This article reports on informal community efforts to care for non-human animals during and after the 2019/2020 “Black Summer” bushfires in Australia, when over three billion animals were killed, injured, or displaced."</p><p>"Key findings are that: <br>human communities understood and treated non-human animals as part of their communities; humans went to extraordinary lengths to care for and rescue animals; these efforts were largely invisible to, and unsupported—even condemned—by formal emergency management agencies. We conclude that human-centric emergency and disaster management policies are at odds with community values and behaviors. We argue that disaster management must evolve to accommodate and support the realities of community-based rather than individual-based approaches, and must simultaneously expand to consider communities as multispecies."<br>>><br>Sturman, A., Celermajer, D., MacDonald, F. et al. Community Efforts to Care for Animals During Climate Disasters: Experiences and Recommendations from an Australian Bushfire Affected Region. Int J Disaster Risk Sci (2025). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-025-00623-8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1007/s13753-025-006</span><span class="invisible">23-8</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bushfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bushfires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/fires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ClimateBreakdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateBreakdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/care" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>care</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NSW</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>megafires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/2019Bushfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2019Bushfires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BlackSummer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackSummer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/disaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disaster</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/preparation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preparation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/pets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/property" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>property</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/livestock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>livestock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/anthropocentrism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropocentrism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/multispecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>multispecies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/values" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>values</span></a></p>