Chernobyl Forest : Where Nature Win Over Radiation

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Chernobyl, the biggest nuclear accident in history. It is known as the “Chernobyl disaster” in the world.

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In 1986, On 25th & 26th April 1986, 130 km. north from the capital Kyiv near the city Pripyat ( Pryp’yat’ ) of Ukraine “Chernobyl power plant” saw the great disaster.

Chernobyl disaster

As a result of steam explosion and fire in reactor core spread out in the air Cause 400 times more harmful radiation in the atmosphere than Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan).

Although the total number of death was never determined. 31 people died as a result of immediate after effect and also approx. 14 more people died within next 10 years with radioactive contamination. UN claimed it could be 50. all About 4000 victims were faced a lot of fatal diseases along with thyroid cancer.

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Chernobyl disaster : Chernobyl now turned into a forest with many wild animals
Chernobyl : Gas Mask

More than 100,000 people evacuate the area immediately. This area is not suitable for living from when Chernobyl was declared as an exclusion zone for the next 20000 years. So, about 2600 square km. area around the Chernobyl still remain inappropriate for people habitation as an exclusion zone.

For preventing radiation sarcophagus build around the reactor. But it’s started damaging gradually. Many European countries and organizations help to build a new sarcophagus of 110 meters high and 36000-ton weight. It’s one of the biggest Construction in the world till now. But the radiation is so high that each rod will take more than 10 years to damage fully.

Nature reclaim Chernobyl

But nature can change anything with her unbelievable power. Nature takes only two decades to regain the city which was built by destroying nature. Then whole city turned into a young forest. Without any kind of plantation, nature reclaimed the city with its own power.

The red forest

The popular Red Forest is a ten-square-kilometer pine jungle. Which is died after absorption of high levels of ionizing radiation during the disaster and turned into ginger-brown color.

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The Red Forest named after this ginger-brown colour pine forest(more correctly orange color).
its standing in the middle of Chernobyl Exclusion Zone located in Polesia.
The Red Forest is one of the most contaminated areas in the world but nature reclaimed it with its own way.

Animals Living in Chernobyl

As soon as nature retrieve the area various kind of animals and birds also came here to make their home. Biologists are amazed after saw that how various wild life established their own ecosystem within a radioactive nuclear wasteland. At First it seems that they are seasonal guest here. But later it was discovered that the abandoned city turned into wild animals’ permanent home.

A lot of animals like deer, buffalo, elk, bears, beavers, foxes, wild boar, raccoons and more than 200 species of birds are now living here. Moreover Rare Przewalski’s Horse also seen in the forest.

Now the wild animal rate of Chernobyl is higher than any Europe’s wild animal richest area.

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Rare Przewalski's Horse In Chernobyl Forest
Przewalski’s Horse in Chernobyl

You can see deer everywhere in Chernobyl. Rare Przewalskis’ Horse is a common animal in Chernobyl. Surprisingly in this forest now you can found hunter animals like wolf, hyenas (wild dogs), lynx cat. These hunters come to the place where plenty of other animals available. A large amount of wolves also discovered and they are almost seven times higher than any other normal non-radioactive area.

Chernobyl proved that if we give enough time and place to nature then nature can recover it by itself. Now every year 10000 tourist visit Chernobyl to see how an abandoned city looks like. And the rise of Nature in a radioactive barren land.

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