Wolves, bears and lynx have rebounded in the radioactive landscape, along with a rare breed of horses native to Mongolia. Scientists say it shows nature’s ability to recover when human activity is removed.
Reassuring that the planet will be ok after
If humanity dies because of what humans did, and the rest of nature manages to continue on, I posit that humans are not classified as life.
This is a brave and hilarious take, you’re wrong but I’m giving you points for style
I mean, there are probably a ton of species that led to their own demise. The great oxygenation comes to my mind, but I bet there are many smaller events as well.
Plenty of species self-destruct. The difference with humans is that we’re aware of our own self-destruction and are continuing it anyway.
if anyone is interested in more stories like this i definitely recommend reading “islands of abandonment” by cal flyn, which also has a chapter on chernobyl. stories of natural recovery in areas that humans no longer occupy.
@FTonsilStones we’re all just biding time for the trees
Soon, Deathclaws, soon…
Reminds me of the 38th parallel in between North/South Korea. There has been a resurgence of rare wildlife there because no humans fuck with it.
Humans demand a higher quality of life than animals.
We don’t get to see the bears, wolves, horses etc prematurely dying of cancer and mutations, but presumably their ability to reproduce happens before the radiation and mutations overcome their bodies.
presumably their ability to reproduce happens before the radiation and mutations overcome their bodies.
Good ole fashioned evolution baby
Saw a huge Moose in Chernobyl once…
Everyone should! Let’s all book trips to the place with no humans and look at it, so we can take pictures and tell more people about it. It’s so calming and relaxing, we should go there more often. Maybe someone could sell some merch…
I wonder if those are those horses that were thought to be extinct, but it turned out they’re still around.
its the same with the DMZ in korea, the area where its heavily mined and forbidden to enter tigers, and other animals thrived there.
Beware of the Snorks, though
there are spots on this planet with naturally high radiation levels similar to Chernobyl area. The threat is really to longer lived creatures like humans.
My understanding was that radiation was harmful to wildlife, but less harmful than humans. So not exactly uplifting…
THIS!
some people blindly react to everything “nature” or “non-humans” as purely good…
without thinking that maybe the animals moving to Chernobyl area might not be living their best lives, because the human-generated radiation is still there…
its barely negligible apparently. the only danger is the red forest, and truffle,fungi that grow that which hyperaccumulates the radioisoptopes, they found the wild boars had hight amounts of those isotopes, they couldnt figuer it out until they found them eating the fungi.
