Four decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine, the Chernobyl exclusion zone has become one of Europe's largest nature reserves, covering over 4,500 km². Wolves, lynx, moose, brown bears — absent for over a century — and even Przewalski's horses now roam freely on contaminated land that is too dangerous for human life.
(c) Yasemin Atalay

Chernóbil se ha convertido en un refugio de vida silvestre

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Cuatro décadas después del desastre nuclear, la zona de exclusión de Chernóbil es hoy una de las mayores reservas naturales de Europa, con más de 4.500 km² donde lobos, linces, alces, osos pardos — ausentes durante más de un siglo — y caballos de Przewalski campan en libertad, en terreno demiasiado tóxico para vids humana.

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