large reason why these animals seem to
be persisting in high densities or high
abundance within the exclusion zone is
because of the absence of humans as you
drive around the exclusion zone you’re
overcome by all the lush nature it’s
really an eerie reminder of the tragic
human impact that occurred there back
around 30 years ago
the Chernobyl exclusion zone is
basically a 30 kilometer radius that was
created that extends around the nuclear
reactor where the accident occurred and
within that 30 kilometer zone
that’s where preventive measures were
taken to exclude people so all the towns
villages cities within that area that 30
kilometer area were evacuated so two
years after the accident this year
Woodlands increase it up to one half or
more times so now approximately 70% of
area on this force if we talk about
large mammals like carnivores and
ungulates it’s really good habitat
sickles
it’s about editing now and especially
this very wild spots along the border
with Belarus and also many different
water sources like lakes and rivers and
springs
so the work that we’ve been involved
with in the Chernobyl exclusion zone has
been to look at the distribution and
relative abundance of wildlife
particularly large mammals and
especially carnivores specifically
looking at radiation contamination so as
you move from areas of low to high
contamination do you see a subsequent
drop-off in the number of species that
you detect the the relative abundance of
those animals species we most commonly
documented were raccoon dogs large
numbers of photographs of grey wolves
red fox Eurasian boar Eurasian badger
when we have human dominated landscapes
we have lower densities of animals
especially animals that come into
conflict with humans like wolves and so
after people were removed even though
the landscape was highly contaminated it
allowed them to increase what this
research is not looking at is the
individual health of those animals so it
doesn’t suggest that these animals are
incredibly healthy although on the
surface they appear very healthy it
doesn’t imply that there are more subtle
genetic effects and that’s an important
area that I think we need to continue to
explore with future research down the
road
you
be persisting in high densities or high
abundance within the exclusion zone is
because of the absence of humans as you
drive around the exclusion zone you’re
overcome by all the lush nature it’s
really an eerie reminder of the tragic
human impact that occurred there back
around 30 years ago
the Chernobyl exclusion zone is
basically a 30 kilometer radius that was
created that extends around the nuclear
reactor where the accident occurred and
within that 30 kilometer zone
that’s where preventive measures were
taken to exclude people so all the towns
villages cities within that area that 30
kilometer area were evacuated so two
years after the accident this year
Woodlands increase it up to one half or
more times so now approximately 70% of
area on this force if we talk about
large mammals like carnivores and
ungulates it’s really good habitat
sickles
it’s about editing now and especially
this very wild spots along the border
with Belarus and also many different
water sources like lakes and rivers and
springs
so the work that we’ve been involved
with in the Chernobyl exclusion zone has
been to look at the distribution and
relative abundance of wildlife
particularly large mammals and
especially carnivores specifically
looking at radiation contamination so as
you move from areas of low to high
contamination do you see a subsequent
drop-off in the number of species that
you detect the the relative abundance of
those animals species we most commonly
documented were raccoon dogs large
numbers of photographs of grey wolves
red fox Eurasian boar Eurasian badger
when we have human dominated landscapes
we have lower densities of animals
especially animals that come into
conflict with humans like wolves and so
after people were removed even though
the landscape was highly contaminated it
allowed them to increase what this
research is not looking at is the
individual health of those animals so it
doesn’t suggest that these animals are
incredibly healthy although on the
surface they appear very healthy it
doesn’t imply that there are more subtle
genetic effects and that’s an important
area that I think we need to continue to
explore with future research down the
road
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