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Wild horses flourish around Chernobyl site
Posted on 4/24/21 at 8:00 am
Posted on 4/24/21 at 8:00 am
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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 maybe not be fit for humans for 24,000 years, but for now this breed of wild horse has thrived.
"It's really a symbol of the reserve and even the exclusion zone in general," said Denys Vyshnevsky, head of the scientific department of the Chernobyl nature reserve created in the area five years ago.
The explosion in the fourth reactor at the nuclear power plant in April, 26, 1986 left swathes of Ukraine and neighbouring Belarus badly contaminated and led to the creation of a no man's land within a 30-kilometre (19-mile) radius of the station.
Dozens of villages and towns were evacuated, turning the area into a giant reserve unprecedented in Europe by its size.
More than three decades after the incident there has been an influx of visitors to the area, spurring officials to seek official status—and protection—from UNESCO.
A 'unique' chance to save biodiversity
Since the disaster, the area has become a haven for elk, wolves—and the stocky endangered breed of wild horse native to Asia, Przewalski's horse.
The breed, named after Russian scientist Nikolai Przewalski who discovered it in the Asia expansive Gobi desert, became all but extinct by the middle of the 20th century, partially due to overhunting.
It was reintroduced by scientists to areas of Mongolia, China and Russia as part of preservation efforts.
In a different program, 30 of the horses were released into the Chernobyl zone in 1998, replacing an extinct horse native to the region, the Tarpan.
The experiment in Ukraine was soon halted but the horses remained and now number around 150 in parts of the exclusion zone, with around another 60 over the border in Belarus
Posted on 4/24/21 at 8:02 am to LSUDVM1999
Nature, um, finds a way...
Posted on 4/24/21 at 8:07 am to LSUDVM1999
Mick Jagger sang about this a long time ago
Posted on 4/24/21 at 8:09 am to Cosmo
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Cosmo
Nature, um, finds a way...
So if you kill one of these elk and mount it on your wall does it double as a night light when the sun goes down?
Posted on 4/24/21 at 8:10 am to LSUDVM1999
what a dumb looking horse
Posted on 4/24/21 at 8:10 am to drexyl
Haha it does look unintelligent
Posted on 4/24/21 at 8:13 am to drexyl
So Down syndrome horses are thriving
Posted on 4/24/21 at 8:23 am to drexyl
That horse read the thread, says it’s interdasting
Posted on 4/24/21 at 8:28 am to drexyl
quote:I bet you wouldn't say that to Genghis Khan
what a dumb looking horse
Posted on 4/24/21 at 8:35 am to LSUDVM1999
I bet they all test hot using a geiger counter.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 8:38 am to LSUDVM1999
So, why did they have to shoot that Mama dog and her puppies in the mini series Chernobyl?
Posted on 4/24/21 at 9:29 am to East Coast Band
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So, why did they have to shoot that Mama dog and her puppies in the mini series Chernobyl?
To make your bitch arse cry
Posted on 4/24/21 at 10:08 am to drexyl
That used to be a prairie dog
Posted on 4/24/21 at 10:10 am to LSUDVM1999
There are apparently a lot of wolves around Chernobyl.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 10:22 am to Eli Goldfinger
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ere are apparently a lot of wolves around Chernobyl.
Yeah I’m pretty sure those are the ones HBO used to film the big arse dire wolves. Which is why they stopped using them as much in later seasons. The radiation poisoning was giving Emilia Clarke aneurisms.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 10:26 am to LSUDVM1999
Umm. There are people who never left their villages and are still there and have been the entire time.
The media fooled everyone on Chernobyl
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