What happens to animals in the Chernobyl zone.
Since the accident at Chernobyl it took only thirty years. Over the years, the exclusion zone remained almost uninhabited by people, but there are favorable conditions for development of flora and fauna. How radiation affects birds and animals, and scientists still could not be determined, however, thanks to the cameras recorded that in the woods there were many inhabitants. Here is lynx, moose, wolves, giant bison and other animals, many of which have long been listed in the Red book.
Biologist Sergey Gusak sets the camera to observe the animals.
The idea to learn more about the wildlife in the exclusion zone belongs to the Ukrainian scientist Sergei Gashaka. Its main work is to conduct radioecological studies. In parallel, Sergey enjoys studying biology and Zoology, now it has become his private research interests.
The black stork is listed in the Red book.
Lesser spotted eagle – a rare bird.
Several years ago Sergei independently bought and installed a dozen hidden cameras around the clock record of everything that happens around. Writing is enabled as soon as the camera is at a distance of 10-15 meters approaching any warm-blooded creature. Due to the fact that shooting can occur around the clock, Sergei Gusak got not only pictures of animals, whose period of activity occurs in the daytime, but joins a collection of curious observations on the life of nocturnal inhabitants of the forest.
Pie in the camera lens.
To the river came the lynx with a cub.
The bears lived in these woods for nearly a century, now they’re coming back.
Local Bambi.
Unfortunately, adequate funding for projects to study the natural diversity of the Chernobyl area is not, therefore, Sergey did many things of their own funds. However, a few years ago, his studies became interested in French scientists and agreed to support the project. The allocated grant funds purchased four dozen so-called “camera traps”.
Moose cow and her two baby.
Deer posing for the camera.
The camera recorded the bison.
Przewalski’s horses in the winter.
Over the years, the forests have returned brown bears, endangered black storks has increased the population of Przewalski’s horses, which were brought here in the 1990-ies. In a word, has been a natural recovery of the animal world. From 2016, the territory has a status of radiation-ecological biosphere reserve, now there are scientists, scheduled to open and a limited number of tour routes.
Photo montage: the size of a deer compared to a man’s height.
For 30 years, the flora and fauna of the exclusion zone began to recover.
Lynx are well adapted in the zone of ecological disaster.
The deer population numbers about 1.5 thousand individuals.
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