Chernobyl s toxic nuclear site presents a unique chance to protect biodiversity
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Editor s Note: Today is the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that took place on 26 April 1986 due to a flawed reactor design run by unqualified personnel. Two workers died due on the night of the explosion and 28 people died within a few weeks as a result of acute radiation syndrome.
Down an overgrown country road, three startled wild horses with rugged coats and rigid manes dart into the flourishing overgrowth of their unlikely nature reserve: the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Thirty-five years after the world s worst nuclear disaster an anniversary commemorated in the ex-Soviet country on Monday surging flora and fauna have taken over deserted tower blocks, shops and official buildings topped with communist icons. Ukrainian authorities say the area
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Przewalski s horses run in the Chernobyl zone on August 26, 2017. They are the Przewalski s horses, an endangered species native to Asia which surprisingly thrives in the area tainted by radiation, after having once disappeared in the wild. Photograph:( AFP )
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Since the nuclear disaster, the area has become a haven for elk, wolves and the stocky endangered breed of wild horse native to Asia, Przewalski s horse
Chernobyl nuclear disaster is worst of its kind in human history. The explosion in the fourth reactor at the nuclear power plant on April, 26, 1986 left swathes of Ukraine and neighbouring Belarus badly contaminated with radiation. This led to the formation of a no man s land within a 30-kilometre (19-mile) radius of the station. Towns, villages were evacuated and the exclusion zone was considered uninhabitable for huma
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