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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Derek Gatopoulos and Evgeniy Maloletka

Chernobyl is too radioactive for humans – but wild animals are thriving like never before

A wild deer walks on snow in a forest inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukraine - (Local Library)

Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a radioactive landscape too dangerous for human life, the world’s wildest horses roam free. Przewalski’s horses – stocky, sand-coloured, and almost toy-like – graze an area larger than Luxembourg.

This desolate territory was created on 26 April 1986, when an explosion at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant sent radiation across Europe, forcing the evacuation of entire towns and displacing thousands. It remains the worst nuclear disaster in history.

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