1. Chernobyl wildlife: what happens in this extraordinary reserve

    https://chernobylguide.com/chernobyl_wildlife/

    The creation of Chernobyl wildlife sanctuary is important because the most part of the exclusion zone is located on the terrain of Ukraine. The project of the biosphere reserve is attractive because the conditions of farming and nature conservation are flexible and functional.

  2. Chernobyl has become a refuge for wildlife 33 years after ...

    https://theconversation.com/chernobyl-has-become-a-refuge-for-wildlife-33-years-after-the-nuclear-accident-116303

    Chernobyl wildlife today But today, 33 years after the accident, the Chernobyl exclusion zone, which covers an area now in Ukraine and Belarus, is inhabited by brown bears, bisons, wolves, lynxes,...

  3. How did Chernobyl become a refuge for wildlife?

    https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-05-13/chernobyl-has-become-refuge-wildlife-33-years-after-nuclear-accident

    But today, 33 years after the accident, the Chernobyl exclusion zone, which covers an area now in Ukraine and Belarus, is inhabited by brown bears, bison, wolves, lynx, Przewalski horses and more...

  4. How Chernobyl has become an unexpected haven for wildlife ...

    https://assembly.thegef.org/news/how-chernobyl-has-become-unexpected-haven-wildlife

    The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, set up after the 1986 nuclear reactor disaster in Ukraine, is the third-largest nature reserve in mainland Europe and has become an iconic experiment in rewilding. The How Chernobyl has become an unexpected haven for wildlife | Global Environment Facility

  5. Nearly 30 Years After Chernobyl Disaster, Wildlife Returns ...

    https://www.livescience.com/52458-wildlife-populations-chernobyl-disaster.html

    Almost 30 years after a horrific accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant released massive amounts of radiation and became one of the world's worst nuclear catastrophes, the long-abandoned...

  6. Wildlife abounds in these places abandoned years before ...

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/04/humans-forced-out-wildlife-abound-fukushima-coronavirus/

    Wildlife abounds in these places abandoned years before coronavirus Studies of Korea’s DMZ and exclusion zones around the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants show how animals respond...

  7. Huge Bird-Sized Butterfly Found Living In Chernobyl ...

    https://journal.com.ph/editorial/mysteries/huge-bird-sized-butterfly-found-living-in-chernobyl-radiation-zone/

    The scientists at Chernobyl and Fukushima say they’re studying the radiation damage on wildlife to better prepare for future disasters. That’s not comforting at all. While it may be exciting to them that a huge bird-sized butterfly can live in a radioactive area, there’s still plenty of dead canaries in this coal mine.

  8. Giant Butterfly The Size Of A Bird Spotted In Chernobyl ...

    https://brobible.com/culture/article/giant-butterfly-chernobyl-exclusion-zone-fraxini/

    In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near the city of Pripyat in the Ukraine suffered a catastrophic failure and resulted in what is considered by many to be the worst nuclear disaster in the history of the world.. Since then, there has been something called the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone which began as an area with a 19 mile (30 km) radius around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and has ...

  9. What We Know About the Chernobyl Animal Mutations

    https://www.thoughtco.com/chernobyl-animal-mutations-4155348

    The ​Chernobyl exclusion zone is a mostly-off-limits area covering over 1,600 square miles around the accident. The exclusion zone is a sort of radioactive wildlife refuge. The animals are radioactive because they eat radioactive food, so they may produce fewer young and bear mutated progeny. Even so, some populations have grown.