#Wild Chernobyl - The Boston Globe
▻https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture/2016/04/12/wild-chernobyl/DOaslgXPsQ88qMeKDAGd3K/story.html
What happens to the environment when humans disappear? Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Reuters photographer Vasily Fedosenko documented booming populations of wolf, elk and other wildlife in the vast contaminated zone in Belarus and Ukraine. On April 26, 1986, a botched test at the nuclear plant in Ukraine, then a Soviet republic, sent clouds of smouldering #radioactive material across large swathes of Europe. Over 100,000 people had to abandon the area permanently, leaving native #animals the sole occupants of a cross-border “exclusion zone” roughly the size of Luxembourg.—By Reuters
