Wildlife reclaims Chernobyl exclusion zone decades after nuclear disaster

Howling wolves in an abandoned village in Chernobyl. FILE PIC/ISTOCK

Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski's horses still graze in a radioactive landscape.

On April 26, 1986, an explosion at the nuclear power plant in Ukraine displaced thousands.

It was the worst nuclear disaster in history. Four decades on, Chernobyl remains too dangerous for humans.

But the wildlife has moved back in. Wolves now prowl the vast no-man's-land spanning Ukraine and Belarus, and brown bears have returned after more than a century.

Populations of lynx, moose, red deer and even free-roaming packs of dogs have rebounded.

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