Radioactive Wolves Of Chernobyl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFvvdYr-1Wc — What happens after a nuclear accident to nature? And how does the world it inherits after human inhabitants have fled be dealt with by wildlife?

In 1986 a nuclear meltdown at the infamous Chernobyl power plant in present day Ukraine left miles of property in radioactive ruins. Government order evacuated and relocated residents living in areas contaminated by the calamity, and a no-man’s land of our own making was left to its own devices. In the following 25 years, rivers, marshes, fields and woods reclaimed the land, reversing the effects of hundreds of years of human development. And surprisingly, this exclusion zone, or “dead zone,” is now a kind of post-atomic Eden, populated by horses and buffalo, beaver and birds, fish and falcons — and ruled by wolves.

Access to the zone is now permitted, at least on a small basis, and scientists are monitoring the living wildlife in the place, attempting to learn how the various species are contending with the imperceptible blight of radiation. As the top predators in this new wilds, wolves represent the state of the entire ecosystem because if the wolves are doing well, the populations of their prey must additionally be doing well. Consequently, a vital long term study of the wolves has been started to ascertain their amounts, their range, and their health.

Radioactive Wolves examines the state of wildlife populations in Chernobyl’s exclusion zone, an area that, to this day, stays too radioactive for human habitation.