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Chernobyl’s radioactive landscape is testament to nature’s resilience and survival spirit
Scientists say wildlife has rebounded despite radiation, while fighting and fires from Russia’s invasion have damaged forests and power infrastructure.
- Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski's horses graze in a radioactive landscape larger than Luxembourg, four decades after the worst nuclear disaster in history left the region too dangerous for humans.
- Known as "takhi" or "spirit" in Mongolia, these horses were introduced in 1998 as an experiment and possess 33 pairs of chromosomes, distinguishing them from domestic breeds.
- Lead nature scientist Denys Vyshnevskyi uses motion-sensitive cameras to track the animals, which seek shelter in abandoned Soviet-era buildings to escape harsh weather and insects.
- With human pressure gone, populations of lynx, moose, and Wolves have rebounded across Ukraine and Belarus, as nature effectively performed a "factory reset" on the contaminated land.
- Russia's 2022 invasion brought fighting toward Kyiv through the exclusion zone, with forest fires from downed drones creating new threats, said firefighting unit leader Oleksandr Polischuk.
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Chernobyl's radioactive landscape is testament to nature's resilience and survival spirit
Four decades after the nuclear disaster at Ukraine's Chernobyl power plant, wildlife is thriving again in what became the exclusion zone created by the forced mass evacuations of the population.
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Chernobyl's radioactive landscape is testament to nature’s resilience and survival spirit
Four decades after the nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, wildlife is thriving again in what became the exclusion zone created by the forced mass evacuations of the population.
·United States
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