ANIMAL WELFARE IN DISASTERS. Australia is a land of drought and flooding rains and increasingly, devastating wild fires. In times of disaster, who should be saved? Sociologist Dr Leslie Irvine, asks this challenging and confronting question in her book, Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare in Disasters. In our interview with Dr Irvine she draws on her experience as a Hurricane Katrina disaster response animal welfare volunteer and her academic analysis to explore our obligation to consider animal welfare alongside human welfare in times of crisis.
