After the Chernobyl disaster, at least 116,000 people were permanently evacuated from the area that receives the highest levels of radiation.
- D. Human activities have less impact than radiation levels on some species. Some populations of organisms declined during periods of high radiation levels after humans left the area.
<h3>Does life return to Chernobyl?</h3>
After the April 26, 1986 disaster, the USSR established a 30-kilometer safety zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Thousands of people were forced to abandon their homes, leaving more than 4,200 square kilometers free of direct human influence. Of that space, just over half belongs to Ukraine. The rest is managed by Belarus, which turned it into the Radioecological Reserve of the State of Polesia, one of the largest nature reserves in Europe.
James Beasley, an ecologist at the University of Georgia, is one of the researchers studying how life proliferates in Chernobyl. Together with an international team, he began documenting the animals that inhabit the radioecological reserve, studying footprints and counting from helicopters. The results were promising and this led them to install odor trap cameras to attract animals.
With this information, we can conclude that Human activities have less impact than radiation levels on some species. Some populations of organisms declined during periods of high radiation levels after humans left the area.
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