This place should be converted in to national park , so that animals live freely n humans will stay away as usual due to radiation. Let nature heal itself
Ya but now there logging it to start up farms. Like wtf the trees are sucking up the rads and there going oh the trees keep adding rads to the land. Ps not this show but Russia itself is saying that. Like wtf don't log a radioactive tree and say your stoping rads. This company reforestation program is definitely helping stops the rads and keeping it locked up in the wood for a long time. Good job team 👏.
"humans will stay away as usual due to radiation" The thing is, that radiation is no real problem when its decreasing over time. so people will come back. but the idea of a national park is great
@@Animefightforum "didnt scientists say It will take like 20,000 years before its at the levels that humans can tolerate" I think thats only for the dirty zone near the reactor. Think about it: other reactor blocks near the destroyed one produced energy until betweet 1991 - 2000.
Actually only 50 people died due to Chernobyl accident. A single accident at coal mine can claime several times as many lives. And that not to mention millions and millions of people who die every year due to air pollution.
videos like this makes me wish more and more that the Netherlands actually did what it promised a while back. unify all of their nature reserves into one large connected one. This wouldn't decrease the human density but at the very least not make the nature parks a bunch of unconnected islands. With how much is in these it might be as large as 1/3 of the Netherlands and there were even plans to connect it to other reserves in Belgium and Germany.
Indeed instead the pressure is put on farmers/farming families to bare that task, how much wouldn't help with climate change if we reconnect nature and give it space again. I do however see that rivers/streams are given their space again, meandering again and floodfields/plains/wadis/uiterwaarden for a more natural and healthy way to deal with floodwater. But the connections are not there yet.
Yeah, when I was in NL I was thinking about this all the time. Even the goverment wants the landscape to be pretty, there isn't just normal forest, place without people.. Everywhere i went, there was some impact by humans. I am from Czechia, and after I returned from NL I realized, how I am glad for our nature, and how people are treating it. It's not much restricted, and people can just enjoy it on their own. And we aren't that much forested country actually.
It's been suggested that the lack of obvious radiation related ill health in the animals is due to their (mostly) shorter lifespans. Most of them don't live long enough to accumulate radiation damage.
@@Qronous Decontamination for humans is actually soap and water, just like it is for dogs. However radiation (and its transference/recontamination) affects both species differently. Dogs and other non-human species also don't get as sick as we do from drinking dirty water. These things are not connected; I'm just trying to illustrate that there are differences between us even if the treatment is the same. I'm really happy to hear that they're rescuing the dogs. I like them more than I like most people. They're better at being human than we are.
Could you two above give us the scientific references to these facts, please? They would be very interesting for my work, that is about radiation effects prevention.
@@magdamundt9483Honestly I've seen so many documentaries and read so many articles (my ex-husband is Ukrainian) I couldn't actually give you one source. I can tell you the information is pretty easy to find.
@@magdamundt9483 Kyle Hill on UA-cam has his Half-life series, with one video on Chernobyl's dogs (ua-cam.com/video/bmVGwOP_zi8/v-deo.htmlsi=T_4L23cEdkp4dWP8 )! I believe he should have sources and studies in the description.
Yes, rewilding in abandoned places makes sense. But those places have been abandoned for a reason. Usually it is because of difficult terrain, or the fact that the soil is not very fertile. Chernobyl is a unique case, however most places that we leave behind are pretty useless and not very rich in resources not only for us but also for the animals we are trying to bring back.
This is the unfortunate reality yes. Currently rewilding can only focus on marginal and less fertile land as all else is still in use. Still, it is a starting point!
Hi Greta, we have our own biologists that run most of the projects we have (in Scotland and Portugal). In the other locations we work with local partners but our own biologists are heavily involved in the management of the project.
@@MossyEarth but can animals being brought back into barren landscapes can "heal" the areas as a result? It's a process but I think it's being done right now in Scotland..
@@orbenezra647 The reintroduction of certain species can most certainly help improve the health of an ecosystem. There are many ways to make the landscape wilder besides that as well such as habitat restoration. A great example is how beavers help create habitat for other species by flooding areas with their dams. We will be exploring many of these dynamics on our channel in the next few months so be sure to subscribe to keep an eye on these videos :) - Cheers, Duarte
Indonesia also had a similar scenario. The area of what is now Ujung Kulon National Park used to be a village, until the eruption of Krakatoa forced the villagers to evacuate from the peninsula. As a result, nature was able to grow back, and now it houses the last population of Javan rhinos in the world
Indeed they did. What a shame. I hope when this eventually settles down that the Ukrainian people will still have this wonderful piece of biodiversity to call their own.
This was awesome. I have always loved those photos of urban areas that are reclaimed by nature. We often see old insane asylums in this state as they are disused. Obviously not to the extent of Chernobyl.
There are a few interesting areas like chernobyl around the globe. However, it hard for us to make a video about them as the footage is hard to get... Places like abandoned cities in china and the demiliterized zone in Korea.
The other place on Earth that is similar is the Korean Demilitarized Zone. It's about 250 kilometers long and 4 kilometers wide. My understanding is there have basically been very few people in the zone since 1953 and as a result, the area is filled with wildlife.
So sad to see that the worst thing that happened to the planet is us. The rest of the living creatures will not destroy the only place they have to live.
The fish in the cooling channels have mutated significantly. Jeremy wade has an episode on it. The wells catfish there are completely unlike any other wells populations through the entirety of europe and asia. The radiation in the exclusion zone may just lead to higher cancer rates, but the closer to the reactor core you get the more likely you are to see mutated populations.
Radiation affects longer lived species the most. Animals in the zone have responded by shortening their reproductive maturation. It's OK for a wolf to reproduce at 1 years old... For a human, not quite so much.
@@erikjohanson3929 yeah they were smaller, but still otherwise just catfish. Just making this late note here in case some random people think they turned into fallout mutants or something.
Tragic that in April 2022 Europe is at war in the zone, and food security means less land will be available to return to rewilding as agriculture gears up especially in U.K.
If only rabid nato didn't blockade biggest food exporter on the planet (and before someone whines about muh sanctions - these are useless, raising prices more than compensated for less demand, in fact in interest of fighting climate change and rewilding it would be best to drop idiotic sanctions right now)...
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About the lynx and wolf population: Carnivores need much more living space than any other species. Keep in mind a wolfpack is going to need to hunt every day or every other day at least in order to survive. They will probably need to either hunt large animals like deers or wild boars (all of them, in turn, need a large grassland or a forest to sustain their large population and not starve). So you need a vast grassland/forest to maintain a large population of deers and then these deers can only provide food for a small number of wolfs. Basically, the bigger the area, the more carnivores it can support.
It is very good that Mossy Earth helps natural environment.These ecosystems need us as much as we need them.But when give enough space, Nature will find a way.
True: nature doesn't need us. That doesn't mean our actions can do no good for nature's health. As a species, humanity has shown callous disregard for the ecosystems it depends on for life support, but it does not have to be that way.
It's not "humans" as a whole destroying ecosystems, but a culture of resource extraction and domination over nature. Indigenous people make up less than 5% of the world population but protect 80% of it's biodiversity, and they have done this while manipulating the landscape through controlled burns, seed dispersal, farming, hunting & fishing, etc. There are some ecosystems that rely heavily on human maintenance for their health and biodiversity, like in Australia or northern California where controlled burns open up grazing areas, trigger regrowth, and prevent massive wildfires. Humans do not need to remove themselves from nature (as if such a thing were even possible); they need to form mutualistic relationships.
That’s the exact point that I’ve been trying to tell! We’ve only been seeing this massive loss a biodiversity when we see nature as a resource and not Mother Nature.
It is not by far the worst nuclear accident. Only one reactor exploded in ChNPP. 3 in Fucusima. Up to 50 deaths from causes directly related to the accident in Chernobyl. As a result of the evacuation after the Fukushima accident, 2202-2304 people have died. The Chernobyl accident claimed the lives of up to 4,000 people, including long-term consequences such as cancer. The final number of deaths from the results of Fukushima, we will know (if at all) only many years later.
Do you know that Chernobyl accident released about 10 times the radiation that was released after the Fukushima accident? Or you say Fukushima was worse nuclear accident because lots of people died during evacuation? And what's source of "Up to 50 deaths from causes directly related to the accident in Chernobyl"? USSR official info, lol?
@@squidwardfromua I live in Chelyabinsk. This is the southern border of the East Ural radioactive trace.I have a habit to know exactly how much, where and what radioactive was released. You forgot that more than 80% of Fukushima's radioactive emissions were not atmospheric. The Japanese drained 1,2 million tons of water with an excess of carbon 14 into ocean. By the way. Soviet legislation, so that you understand, prohibits classifying information about what poses a danger to the population. Japanese - quite the opposite.
@@МихаилРозов-ю9п Ohh, you're russian "Soviet legislation prohibits classifying information" Now everything's clear The only missing part is "Z" in place of your avatar in purpose of no people to waste time Take care of it
@@squidwardfromua First of all:"Russia is a multinational state, with many subnational entities associated with different minorities. There are over 193 ethnic groups nationwide." But yes, it just so happens I am nominaly russian. To be fair, Ossetians and Chinese were among my ancestors, and you can definitely find a jotun in my family tree if you scratch. The last known half-breed named Svyatogor lived somewhere here in in the Ural moutains. I am, literally, a walking anecdote about the origin of nations. And now it is quite obvious that you are another ignorant fool who does not understand what happens in the world. But we will not begin your enlightenment with the story of the creation of the world by a jotun Aurgelmir, also known as Yahweh (יהוה) among Jews and Yama (यम) in Hinduism. Let's start with the legal status of Ukraine as a state. It is: non existent. The start date of the status can be interpreted in two ways, but it does not change the fact itself. As a result of an armed coup organized with the direct participation of Victoria Nuland, an illegal armed formation of Poroshenko came to power in Kiev, claiming that they are ukraine, publicly declared its intention to join NATO, which violated paragraph 9 of the declaration on state sovereignty of Ukraine. ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Декларация_о_государственном_суверенитете_Украины That was december 2013. The eastern part of the country did not support the putschists, by which earned the legal right to be called Ukraine (with a capital letter), but as a result of the actions of idiots did not have the slightest desire to do so. Reasons for the presence of Russian troops in the region: an organized criminal group numbering several million people operates on the territory, openly violating the law in the part that relates to the application of the decision of the international tribunal held in the city of Nuremberg November 20, 1945 -1949. This territory belongs to Russia. Either in accordance with the agreements reached on the division of the USSR's property (from the moment Ukraine lost the status of a state), or according to the results of a referendum - depending on what is considered Ukraine. The letter Z on military equipment is the designation of the "western" side in the exercises from which the troops were pulled off. In fact, Russia, even fighting with blank cartridges, had already won the conflict, forced the enemy to negotiate, and was in the middle of the withdrawal process. Although the film "Zorro" is popular in Russia, I find it inappropriate to use such symbols. I was not a part of it. And thats when Boris Johnson showed up in Kiev and told NATO puppets to "fight to the last Ukrainian". Idiots like you, who do not know the laws of their own country, are committing war crimes again, often against relatives of Russian federation servicemen. The worst part is that those "ukrainian" morons are not covered by the conventions on prisoners of war. That is why Russia uses a quota of shells per day for a couple of Persian Gulf War. It's more merciful to just kill them. Go get treated, victim of propaganda.
@@МихаилРозов-ю9по боже, навіть тут росіяни з своєю всратою пропагандою🤦♀. Йди краще поцікався скільки твоїх солдат-терористів померло після копання окопів в рудому лісі. Ідіоти.
I wonder if the lifespan of wild animals has something to do with the lack of radioactive effects on the animals? Wild animals usually have a shorter lifespan which may prevent severe symptoms from developing. Or when the symptoms do develop the animals are killed by predators
It doesn't only have space, but also misses hunters, still think that a lower number of wolves with similar number of prey needs only to be linked to hunting, legal and/or illegally
A small herd of Perzwalski horses was introduced into the exclusion zone. This grew into a large herd until poachers eliminated most of them. I don't know how they have fared since the Russian invasion.
I enjoyed this excellent presentation! I also shared it with my child's class. They are currently learning about nuclear power plants and this is a perfect addition to the conversation about Chernobyl and re-wilding. Thank you.
I know you didn't want to go into too much detail about the disaster, but I think at the very least it should be noted that it was completely preventable, and it is not a good representation of nuclear power.
Chernobyl is also a good example that shows that a no liner threshold model on the effects of radiation is not valid as life thrives despite the radiation.
Life may thrive despite the radiation but dont look too closely on the individual! Remember: We dont have a lot of hard facts about the lifespan or the health of the animals in Chernobyl. The only thing we really ever meassured was humans in that regard. And in humans Chernobyl and other radiation hazards over the years surely increased cancer.
@@alexanders.1359 there's research on frogs and dogs just from the top of my head. And the only observable rise of cancer in humans was thyroid cancer in people that were children at the time. This cancer is highly treatable and it affected a few thousand people. This was due to only one isotope of iodine that bioaccumulates in the thyroid but has a short half-life. Other radiation wasn't harmful to the general public.
It was easy for nature to quickly colonize Czarnobyl since it is in big ancient forest area of River Pripyat Valley of Swamps, spanning all the Belarus from Białystok in Poland to Kijów in Ukraine
I think it's so important that you acknowledged the tragedy of the situation. Some people in the rewilding or conservation communities seem to think it would be a good thing if humans were wiped out. It's so sad.
@@DominicHill So you’re saying the world before humans existed was worthless? The entire universe had no value because humans weren’t around? It seems to me that you romanticize the human position. Every organism experiences the world in their own way that’s neither more or less worth than ours. Besides, humans are on the way to cause their own extinction, so I’m not sure where your issue is. Had The Liquidators in Chernobyl failed to prevent a second bigger explosion, then all of Europe would’ve been uninhabitable for 20,000 years. That’s millions of people who would’ve died AND never been born afterwards, including myself. Humans are still producing nuclear weapons and climate change is progressing, too. What’s the point of an amazing world when humans destroy it and sit in its ashes?
@@kurisari1937 of course I'm romantising the human experience - I'm human! No other species in our position would give a second thought to being the dominant species on the planet. Don't misunderstand me, I think it's a good thing that we have a sense of responsibility for the organisms we share the planet with, but the insistence that humans are the worst thing that's ever happened to earth is very sad. The call for depopulation is psychopathic.
@@DominicHill Psychopathy is a human trait, too 🤷 Why is that word and its meaning wrong while romanticizing the human condition isn’t? Lots of tribal people view schizophrenia not as some disease, but a gift, and they become shamans and seers in their community - a highly esteemed position. Meanwhile, our society puts schizophrenics on drugs and shuns them. What is right and wrong? And this is just a difference between two HUMAN societies, not taking into account the dilemmas we’re in with other species who are much more helpless to our whims. For example, climate change and the resulting increase in CO2 is terrible for us, but more CO2 is awesome for plants! They love it! The only reason we stress about it is that it’s bad for our biology, a completely self-centered view. Anyway, the survival of humanity is in neither of our hands and whether we think it’d be good or bad doesn’t matter either. We’ll never know when or if humans went extinct after our own deaths. ✌️
Hi! I just wanted to say that the deaths that are attributable to Chernobyl's accident are less then 100 (considering both immediate deaths and the ones that occurred in the folowing decades). I'm not saying they're not many, but I think most people could misunderstand what you said and think they were a lot more.
Correct as I understand. And don’t forget that a fired coal plant, as an alternative, chucks out loads of low level radiation, leading to more deaths. That said, renewable is the way to go. Cheaper and safer.
Thank you for the kind words, we also love terra mater! We hope to continue working on these interesting topics to bring more attention to rewilding and nature restoration.
You forget the fact that the 3 remaining reactors were kept running until the year 2000… Only 31 people dies as an immediate result of the disaster… and the UN estimates that only 50 can be directly linked to the disaster… and i 2005 it predicted that a further 4000 people might eventually die as a result of the radiation exposure… Besides this it’s very interesting to see how the nature is reclaiming the area 😊
My understanding is that they do not no. I believe that human activity is so detrimental that they thrive in Chernobyl despite all the radiation simply because they have less contact with humans. Even if it affects their health to an extent.
Usually the most radiation afected animals die out before they could reproduce so there's a little of selection and furthermore, if the radiation take some years to cause deadly problems, the animals can reproduce and thrive. The population will be constituted majoritarily by young animals.
No, but humans also do not die as easily from increased levels of radiation as most people think; the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rebuilt after ww2 and people there also did not die out. There are certainly more people dying from cancer, but for the human population as a whole, increased levels of radiation do not matter that much. Even if people die twenty years earlier on average (which would be a lot), this would not necessarily mean that they are less productive as a society. People growing old or very old does not contribute to economic output.
Nuclear energy uses about 1/300th of the land of renewables and 2-4 times less mining of raw materials. If we build more of it it'll allow us to re-wild all the land that's covered with wind and solar, and disturb less habitat for the raw materials it takes to build the plants and get uranium.
I wonder if someone tried to research populations of rock and cave dwelling animals in Pripyat, because it really seems like those overgrown commie blocks surrounded by kilometers of wild nature could become a great spot for golden eagles, various owls, bats etc., especially when the trees get older and the houses will slowly start to fall apart. I had the chance to visit the Zone as an illegal stalker for 5 days in a row, and it was a fascinating urban exploration, but the natural beauty of that place somehow stuck to me even more.
Countless people? It was less than 50 people that died from blast injuries and acute radiation poisoning. Super bad thing that happened, but considering how many super bad things humanity has where the death tolls are much higher I think ''countless'' is a weird choice of words. Especially since there are a few official counts, making the phrasing literally untrue.
@@lennysmileyface Nice trollface :) yeah, still no countless people. It wasn't exactly a spa treatment, but the radiation levels and duration of exposure most people suffered was insufficient to cause a measurable long-term harm. Including people who died from hypothetically connected reasons decades later it is still not countless people. It's a myth perpetuated unquestioningly because people were so afraid of nuclear power. The amount of fossil fuels we have used to reduce reliance on nuclear power has killed millions of people and continues to kill at an escalating pace.
Unfortunately there were a lot of deformed, damaged and disabled children born as a consequence, who were abandoned or left in state orphanages as a result. Did you include them? A lot of long-term distress and suffering, not just what happened at the time. You are nit-picking over one word.
@@susieg4624 I'm not making any argument that it wasn't bad, just that most people are simply factually incorrect as to the degree of damage involved. Yes, it was bad for a lot of people of course, but there is a huge discrepancy between the common perception of the harm done and what can actually be sourced to be accurate. A lot of people over many years have been very opposed to nuclear power based in part on incorrect assumptions and irrational fears. Burning natural gasses and coal meanwhile has caused far greater damage than nuclear plant incidents. A bit like being afraid of flying, but not of driving cars.
Very interesting, I'm all for re-wilding parts of the country. I feel it would probably be better to have one large area of wild land than lots of small areas dotted around the country. The small areas just aren't large enough to support the bigger animals in sufficient numbers. As an aside, at least one of you clips of Chernobyl was actually Three Mile Island.
This also happens in many parts of Balkans where there are a lot of land mines, so the animals know their way around those, and people don't come near it.
Reforestation should avoid plants that can be sold with high price. Ficus Benjamina can withold water, producing fruits, and in some culture the people won't dare to cut old tree because they believe they are sacred.
Wild ecosystems form and support conditions of our life (climate, oxygen balance, pure water, soils and etc.) Deficiency of ecosystems is the environmental problem №1 on our planet. Most part of ecosystems were destroyed by agriculture. So, rewilding will definite our future. If we don’t make intentional rewilding ecological collapse will be inevitable.
Hopefully it is resilient enough! If it survived humans and a nuclear meltdown I think it can come back from this when everything hopefully calms down.
@@MossyEarth I worry about the population of Przewalski horses there. They were extinct in the wild, so it's not a naturally created population, but someone had the idea to put a herd of horses there. People thought that this was a bad idea because of rAdiATiOn, but as you explained here, the biggest worry for most species are humans, not slightly elevated radiation (the amounts have decreased significantly, and only Russian troops managed to elevate them again). So the horses actually more or less thrived there and increased their numbers. When I heard about the Russians occupying Chernobyl, I was so worried about the Przewalskis. Do you have any information about them?
In national park I live near, in dead center theres small town from which whole forest bigger than Chernobyl exclusions zone takes name. The town and several villages could be serounded with sound proof wall (with gates and doors for locals and tourists to still use forest). Road leading to the it is winding, narrow and very dangerous, near it in separate corridor goes neglected straight rail line, in my opinion it would be better to put both together in one walled corridor, two way electrified rail line and wider road would have less of an impact and could be build on flyover over one of valleys and have animal bridges and underpasses to connect the forest.
Yknow the rewinding this kinda reminds me of the 38th parallel border in Korea. There’s not a lot of documentaries I’ve found on it because a) it’s incredibly dangerous and b) I don’t speak Korean but what I have been able to find is really interesting and I wish people talked about it more
Could you please make a similar documentary about Polesie State Radioecological Reserve (the other half of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone)? I learnt of it recently & it bothers me that literally no one seems to talk about it anywhere except the dedicated wikipedia article.
Very late but commenting for the algorithm because y’all are awesome! The wolf abundance was a pleasant surprise. I’d love to learn more about their predation patterns and preferred prey animals. In Yellowstone the wolves have mostly gone for elk (wapiti) in the past, but are starting to consume more bison as well as prey abundance shifts
Its so strange to hear the voice of Peter jenings on abc news...I remember the accident like as if it happened yesterday ...oh about the landscape...never mind the la escape...the animals living there ..will be a freak of nature ...original ecosystem ?.. what mark .have you passed your biology 101 course with ?
We desperately need to make room for nature for our own suvival as well as animals and plants'. Our rising population is only making it worse. Maybe nuclear holocaust is the answer because we clearly won't listen to reason...
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I don't believe it's true to say "countless people died". The number of people who died as a result of the Chernobyl disaster was in the tens, I think, and they have certainly been counted.
A lot of people have died because of the radiation though, there are still people who were born around that time who have health issues because of that. The radiation carried across half of the continent if not whole, so the amount of people who have died because of it is countless
the abandoned city near the reactor became the habitat of dogs. their ancestors are the forgotten pets of the evacuated people. the dogs thrive, but their lifespan seems to be rather short, so that the effects of long term radiation exposure can't be documented. they don't seem to die from cancer, at least. there are studies of shark populations living near sunken nuclear submarines. they live longer and show some behavioral changes, such as higher aggressiveness. it would be interesting to know if Chernobyl's wildlife has a longer lifespan than the dogs, and if it leads to other changes in behavior.
Like you, Duarte, I have often wondered about a world in which humans had either vanished or withdrawn. It is fascinating to see Nature reclaim the land. One thing I wonder about the high proportion of wolves and lynx? In the comparable reserves, it could be that they are hunted, especially if they dare to poke their noses over the border of the reserve.
Omg I just started watching and what excited you as a child was actually my childhood nightmare. I have no idea why but I was always terrified of the fall of civilization, which now as an adult seems a never aware childhood fear.
Recent digging of the ground by barbarian occupiers has proven, that living there is indeed impossible. So it will remain largely wild wether we want to or not.
Very cool. Best doc on chernobyl wildlife ive ever seen and there are a bunch. Thats despite it being short. Hopefully more of these large reserves all over the world in the near future.
You're tad wrong about tchernobyl severity. It's not "countless" people who died, we actually know, it's actually 60 deaths. Then, there's a lot of speculations about people being exposed to radiation, but the fact is that there is nothing statistically measurable. If anti-nuclear activists were right and millions of people died, we would see it in the data, and we clearly don't. Btw, even if the biggest death toll estimates amongst the serious ones (by scientists) are used, it's 16.000 extra deaths over the last 50 years. Seems like a lot, but it's still magnitude lower than what we get every year in just car particles, coal emissions or even second hand cigarettes smoke. And as I said, these estimates are pretty dubious. And that's actually why the wildlife does so well, it's because the area isn't that radioactive (except near the molten reactor itself, and by that, I mean real close, in the few meters range)
It’s a little sad that ecofacist ideology has become so pervasive that he had to specifically shut it down barely a minute and a half into the video. Effective environmentalism means keeping humans involved in the environment!
The term "ecofascism" (note the spelling) is right wing propaganda, opposing any concerns about the natural world and the environment. In fact there is no such thing, and only people who have no idea what fascism really is would use such a term.
@@gibbogle here I use ecofacist not as a term to describe a specific political movement, but rather to describe the, in my experience, fairly widely held belief that the so called natural world would simply be better off if many or all people died, and that humans are inherently corruptive or destructive. I don’t know that I could really begin to try to describe or explain the effect that this has on wider cultural opinions about environmentalism or human rights, but I do feel it either springs from or can contribute to ethnonationalist or colonial mindsets (at least in some contexts). If you dispute this attitude existing in broader culture I would point you to any number of online or offline debates about Thanos. Thank you though, this is a good reminder not to use terms outside of established contexts. Have a great day.
@@someone16234 Ethnonationalist mindsets are not wrong in themselves. One of many good things that are too often hijacked by others and brought unfairly into disrepute.
This place should be converted in to national park , so that animals live freely n humans will stay away as usual due to radiation. Let nature heal itself
It's in the process and not only in the Ukrainian side.
Ya but now there logging it to start up farms.
Like wtf the trees are sucking up the rads and there going oh the trees keep adding rads to the land.
Ps not this show but Russia itself is saying that.
Like wtf don't log a radioactive tree and say your stoping rads.
This company reforestation program is definitely helping stops the rads and keeping it locked up in the wood for a long time.
Good job team 👏.
"humans will stay away as usual due to radiation" The thing is, that radiation is no real problem when its decreasing over time. so people will come back. but the idea of a national park is great
But, didnt scientists say It will take like 20,000 years before its at the levels that humans can tolerate. So we won’t be moving back any time soon.
@@Animefightforum "didnt scientists say It will take like 20,000 years before its at the levels that humans can tolerate" I think thats only for the dirty zone near the reactor. Think about it: other reactor blocks near the destroyed one produced energy until betweet 1991 - 2000.
Actually only 50 people died due to Chernobyl accident.
A single accident at coal mine can claime several times as many lives. And that not to mention millions and millions of people who die every year due to air pollution.
The Belarusian side is protected as a nature reserve with about 200.000 ha of one of the most interesting landscapes in Europe.
Please talk about Union Carbide accident in Bhopal, India as well
Good video, thanks!
The Belarusian side is protected as a nature reserve with about 200.000 ha of one of the most interesting landscapes in Europe.
videos like this makes me wish more and more that the Netherlands actually did what it promised a while back. unify all of their nature reserves into one large connected one. This wouldn't decrease the human density but at the very least not make the nature parks a bunch of unconnected islands. With how much is in these it might be as large as 1/3 of the Netherlands and there were even plans to connect it to other reserves in Belgium and Germany.
Wow! I want this to happen now!
This would be *fantastic*
Indeed instead the pressure is put on farmers/farming families to bare that task, how much wouldn't help with climate change if we reconnect nature and give it space again. I do however see that rivers/streams are given their space again, meandering again and floodfields/plains/wadis/uiterwaarden for a more natural and healthy way to deal with floodwater. But the connections are not there yet.
Yeah, when I was in NL I was thinking about this all the time. Even the goverment wants the landscape to be pretty, there isn't just normal forest, place without people.. Everywhere i went, there was some impact by humans. I am from Czechia, and after I returned from NL I realized, how I am glad for our nature, and how people are treating it. It's not much restricted, and people can just enjoy it on their own. And we aren't that much forested country actually.
Go to Canada then, the Netherlands has no space for this nonsense
It's been suggested that the lack of obvious radiation related ill health in the animals is due to their (mostly) shorter lifespans. Most of them don't live long enough to accumulate radiation damage.
Actually the radiation showed little to no affects on the dogs, and could be washed away. Thats why they’re finally rescuing them.
@@Qronous Decontamination for humans is actually soap and water, just like it is for dogs. However radiation (and its transference/recontamination) affects both species differently. Dogs and other non-human species also don't get as sick as we do from drinking dirty water. These things are not connected; I'm just trying to illustrate that there are differences between us even if the treatment is the same. I'm really happy to hear that they're rescuing the dogs. I like them more than I like most people. They're better at being human than we are.
Could you two above give us the scientific references to these facts, please? They would be very interesting for my work, that is about radiation effects prevention.
@@magdamundt9483Honestly I've seen so many documentaries and read so many articles (my ex-husband is Ukrainian) I couldn't actually give you one source. I can tell you the information is pretty easy to find.
@@magdamundt9483 Kyle Hill on UA-cam has his Half-life series, with one video on Chernobyl's dogs (ua-cam.com/video/bmVGwOP_zi8/v-deo.htmlsi=T_4L23cEdkp4dWP8 )! I believe he should have sources and studies in the description.
Yes, rewilding in abandoned places makes sense. But those places have been abandoned for a reason. Usually it is because of difficult terrain, or the fact that the soil is not very fertile. Chernobyl is a unique case, however most places that we leave behind are pretty useless and not very rich in resources not only for us but also for the animals we are trying to bring back.
This is the unfortunate reality yes. Currently rewilding can only focus on marginal and less fertile land as all else is still in use. Still, it is a starting point!
@@MossyEarth Yes, I would agree that it is better than nothing. Do you guys personally carry out rewilding projects? Or do you outsource them?
Hi Greta, we have our own biologists that run most of the projects we have (in Scotland and Portugal). In the other locations we work with local partners but our own biologists are heavily involved in the management of the project.
@@MossyEarth but can animals being brought back into barren landscapes can "heal" the areas as a result? It's a process but I think it's being done right now in Scotland..
@@orbenezra647 The reintroduction of certain species can most certainly help improve the health of an ecosystem. There are many ways to make the landscape wilder besides that as well such as habitat restoration. A great example is how beavers help create habitat for other species by flooding areas with their dams. We will be exploring many of these dynamics on our channel in the next few months so be sure to subscribe to keep an eye on these videos :) - Cheers, Duarte
Indonesia also had a similar scenario. The area of what is now Ujung Kulon National Park used to be a village, until the eruption of Krakatoa forced the villagers to evacuate from the peninsula. As a result, nature was able to grow back, and now it houses the last population of Javan rhinos in the world
Russia took this area recently
Indeed they did. What a shame. I hope when this eventually settles down that the Ukrainian people will still have this wonderful piece of biodiversity to call their own.
This was awesome. I have always loved those photos of urban areas that are reclaimed by nature. We often see old insane asylums in this state as they are disused. Obviously not to the extent of Chernobyl.
There are a few interesting areas like chernobyl around the globe. However, it hard for us to make a video about them as the footage is hard to get... Places like abandoned cities in china and the demiliterized zone in Korea.
@@MossyEarth it would be awesome though! I think there is a beauty to them!
The other place on Earth that is similar is the Korean Demilitarized Zone. It's about 250 kilometers long and 4 kilometers wide. My understanding is there have basically been very few people in the zone since 1953 and as a result, the area is filled with wildlife.
So sad to see that the worst thing that happened to the planet is us. The rest of the living creatures will not destroy the only place they have to live.
Congrats on making it to the UA-cam algorithm. subscribed.
Its Chornobyl in Ukrainian, Chernobyl in Russian
Thank you for letting us know. If we make a video about this area again we will be sure to pronounce it correctly.
Glorious production from such a small creator!
Thanks Boarbot, hoping to get a few more of these storytelling videos out there :)
"Small" - in terms of subscriber count yes, but *huge* in heart :)
The fish in the cooling channels have mutated significantly. Jeremy wade has an episode on it. The wells catfish there are completely unlike any other wells populations through the entirety of europe and asia.
The radiation in the exclusion zone may just lead to higher cancer rates, but the closer to the reactor core you get the more likely you are to see mutated populations.
Radiation affects longer lived species the most.
Animals in the zone have responded by shortening their reproductive maturation.
It's OK for a wolf to reproduce at 1 years old... For a human, not quite so much.
Wasn't the catfish much smaller than was normal for their age?
@@erikjohanson3929 yeah they were smaller, but still otherwise just catfish. Just making this late note here in case some random people think they turned into fallout mutants or something.
Tragic that in April 2022 Europe is at war in the zone, and food security means less land will be available to return to rewilding as agriculture gears up especially in U.K.
If only rabid nato didn't blockade biggest food exporter on the planet (and before someone whines about muh sanctions - these are useless, raising prices more than compensated for less demand, in fact in interest of fighting climate change and rewilding it would be best to drop idiotic sanctions right now)...
It is not just a war zone - russia occupied Ukraine by doing genocide and ecocide, russians raping our women, kids and land as well
Fantastic work!!!!! You folks are doing a remarkable job in educating society. Please keep up the great work!!!
Thank you, we really appreciate the feedback as it is highly motivating! Please consider subscribing and becoming a member if you haven't done so already :D - Cheers, Duarte
About the lynx and wolf population: Carnivores need much more living space than any other species. Keep in mind a wolfpack is going to need to hunt every day or every other day at least in order to survive. They will probably need to either hunt large animals like deers or wild boars (all of them, in turn, need a large grassland or a forest to sustain their large population and not starve). So you need a vast grassland/forest to maintain a large population of deers and then these deers can only provide food for a small number of wolfs. Basically, the bigger the area, the more carnivores it can support.
Need to control carnivore population
Can you imagine how beautiful this world was before mankind. A world in perfect dynamic balance. Evolving naturally,. One can only dream.
What's perfect dynamic balance? Does it really exist, has it ever existed?
@@Croz89 the balance that is required to support abundant life
@@atruenut Well, throughout the world's history, any kind of balance has been an illusion.
It is very good that Mossy Earth helps natural environment.These ecosystems need us as much as we need them.But when give enough space, Nature will find a way.
I gotta like and comment to support the UA-cam algorithm to give this channel and video more exposure. I liked the video. Thanks
Great video. We always forget that we need nature to survive as a species, but nature does not need us. It will always evolve, change & recover.
True: nature doesn't need us. That doesn't mean our actions can do no good for nature's health. As a species, humanity has shown callous disregard for the ecosystems it depends on for life support, but it does not have to be that way.
It's not "humans" as a whole destroying ecosystems, but a culture of resource extraction and domination over nature. Indigenous people make up less than 5% of the world population but protect 80% of it's biodiversity, and they have done this while manipulating the landscape through controlled burns, seed dispersal, farming, hunting & fishing, etc. There are some ecosystems that rely heavily on human maintenance for their health and biodiversity, like in Australia or northern California where controlled burns open up grazing areas, trigger regrowth, and prevent massive wildfires. Humans do not need to remove themselves from nature (as if such a thing were even possible); they need to form mutualistic relationships.
That’s the exact point that I’ve been trying to tell! We’ve only been seeing this massive loss a biodiversity when we see nature as a resource and not Mother Nature.
There's something to be said about the fact that human presence does more harm to the environment than a nuclear disaster...
It is not by far the worst nuclear accident.
Only one reactor exploded in ChNPP.
3 in Fucusima.
Up to 50 deaths from causes directly related to the accident in Chernobyl.
As a result of the evacuation after the Fukushima accident, 2202-2304 people have died.
The Chernobyl accident claimed the lives of up to 4,000 people, including long-term consequences such as cancer. The final number of deaths from the results of Fukushima, we will know (if at all) only many years later.
Do you know that Chernobyl accident released about 10 times the radiation that was released after the Fukushima accident?
Or you say Fukushima was worse nuclear accident because lots of people died during evacuation?
And what's source of "Up to 50 deaths from causes directly related to the accident in Chernobyl"? USSR official info, lol?
@@squidwardfromua
I live in Chelyabinsk. This is the southern border of the East Ural radioactive trace.I have a habit to know exactly how much, where and what radioactive was released.
You forgot that more than 80% of Fukushima's radioactive emissions were not atmospheric. The Japanese drained 1,2 million tons of water with an excess of carbon 14 into ocean.
By the way. Soviet legislation, so that you understand, prohibits classifying information about what poses a danger to the population. Japanese - quite the opposite.
@@МихаилРозов-ю9п Ohh, you're russian
"Soviet legislation prohibits classifying information"
Now everything's clear
The only missing part is "Z" in place of your avatar in purpose of no people to waste time
Take care of it
@@squidwardfromua First of all:"Russia is a multinational state, with many subnational entities associated with different minorities. There are over 193 ethnic groups nationwide."
But yes, it just so happens I am nominaly russian. To be fair, Ossetians and Chinese were among my ancestors, and you can definitely find a jotun in my family tree if you scratch. The last known half-breed named Svyatogor lived somewhere here in in the Ural moutains. I am, literally, a walking anecdote about the origin of nations.
And now it is quite obvious that you are another ignorant fool who does not understand what happens in the world.
But we will not begin your enlightenment with the story of the creation of the world by a jotun Aurgelmir, also known as Yahweh (יהוה) among Jews and Yama (यम) in Hinduism.
Let's start with the legal status of Ukraine
as a state. It is: non existent. The start date of the status can be interpreted in two ways, but it does not change the fact itself.
As a result of an armed coup organized with the direct participation of Victoria Nuland, an illegal armed formation of Poroshenko came to power in Kiev, claiming that they are ukraine, publicly declared its intention to join NATO, which violated paragraph 9 of the declaration on state sovereignty of Ukraine.
ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Декларация_о_государственном_суверенитете_Украины
That was december 2013.
The eastern part of the country did not support the putschists, by which earned the legal right to be called Ukraine (with a capital letter), but as a result of the actions of idiots did not have the slightest desire to do so.
Reasons for the presence of Russian troops in the region: an organized criminal group numbering several million people operates on the territory, openly violating the law in the part that relates to the application of the decision of the international tribunal held in the city of Nuremberg November 20, 1945 -1949.
This territory belongs to Russia. Either in accordance with the agreements reached on the division of the USSR's property (from the moment Ukraine lost the status of a state), or according to the results of a referendum - depending on what is considered Ukraine.
The letter Z on military equipment is the designation of the "western" side in the exercises from which the troops were pulled off.
In fact, Russia, even fighting with blank cartridges, had already won the conflict, forced the enemy to negotiate, and was in the middle of the withdrawal process. Although the film "Zorro" is popular in Russia, I find it inappropriate to use such symbols. I was not a part of it.
And thats when Boris Johnson showed up in Kiev and told NATO puppets to "fight to the last Ukrainian". Idiots like you, who do not know the laws of their own country, are committing war crimes again, often against relatives of Russian federation servicemen. The worst part is that those "ukrainian" morons are not covered by the conventions on prisoners of war. That is why Russia uses a quota of shells per day for a couple of Persian Gulf War. It's more merciful to just kill them.
Go get treated, victim of propaganda.
@@МихаилРозов-ю9по боже, навіть тут росіяни з своєю всратою пропагандою🤦♀. Йди краще поцікався скільки твоїх солдат-терористів померло після копання окопів в рудому лісі. Ідіоти.
I wonder if the lifespan of wild animals has something to do with the lack of radioactive effects on the animals? Wild animals usually have a shorter lifespan which may prevent severe symptoms from developing. Or when the symptoms do develop the animals are killed by predators
It doesn't only have space, but also misses hunters, still think that a lower number of wolves with similar number of prey needs only to be linked to hunting, legal and/or illegally
A small herd of Perzwalski horses was introduced into the exclusion zone. This grew into a large herd until poachers eliminated most of them. I don't know how they have fared since the Russian invasion.
yoooo i got this on my reccomended
I enjoyed this excellent presentation! I also shared it with my child's class. They are currently learning about nuclear power plants and this is a perfect addition to the conversation about Chernobyl and re-wilding. Thank you.
I know you didn't want to go into too much detail about the disaster, but I think at the very least it should be noted that it was completely preventable, and it is not a good representation of nuclear power.
Chernobyl is also a good example that shows that a no liner threshold model on the effects of radiation is not valid as life thrives despite the radiation.
Life may thrive despite the radiation but dont look too closely on the individual!
Remember: We dont have a lot of hard facts about the lifespan or the health of the animals in Chernobyl. The only thing we really ever meassured was humans in that regard. And in humans Chernobyl and other radiation hazards over the years surely increased cancer.
@@alexanders.1359 there's research on frogs and dogs just from the top of my head. And the only observable rise of cancer in humans was thyroid cancer in people that were children at the time. This cancer is highly treatable and it affected a few thousand people. This was due to only one isotope of iodine that bioaccumulates in the thyroid but has a short half-life.
Other radiation wasn't harmful to the general public.
It was easy for nature to quickly colonize Czarnobyl since it is in big ancient forest area of River Pripyat Valley of Swamps, spanning all the Belarus from Białystok in Poland to Kijów in Ukraine
Czarnobyl? A nobyl of czar? Come on, man, stop that. It's Chornobyl in Ukrainian or Chernobyl in Russian
@@AndreiBerezin and Czarnobyl in Polish
@@magdam1508 who the fuck cares
I think it's so important that you acknowledged the tragedy of the situation. Some people in the rewilding or conservation communities seem to think it would be a good thing if humans were wiped out. It's so sad.
Humans going extinct would be amazing for every non-human organism on this entire planet. That’s just a fact at this point.
@@kurisari1937 It wouldn't be very amazing for the ~7.8 billion humans. What's the point of an amazing world if there's no one to experience it?
@@DominicHill So you’re saying the world before humans existed was worthless? The entire universe had no value because humans weren’t around? It seems to me that you romanticize the human position. Every organism experiences the world in their own way that’s neither more or less worth than ours. Besides, humans are on the way to cause their own extinction, so I’m not sure where your issue is. Had The Liquidators in Chernobyl failed to prevent a second bigger explosion, then all of Europe would’ve been uninhabitable for 20,000 years. That’s millions of people who would’ve died AND never been born afterwards, including myself. Humans are still producing nuclear weapons and climate change is progressing, too. What’s the point of an amazing world when humans destroy it and sit in its ashes?
@@kurisari1937 of course I'm romantising the human experience - I'm human! No other species in our position would give a second thought to being the dominant species on the planet. Don't misunderstand me, I think it's a good thing that we have a sense of responsibility for the organisms we share the planet with, but the insistence that humans are the worst thing that's ever happened to earth is very sad. The call for depopulation is psychopathic.
@@DominicHill Psychopathy is a human trait, too 🤷 Why is that word and its meaning wrong while romanticizing the human condition isn’t? Lots of tribal people view schizophrenia not as some disease, but a gift, and they become shamans and seers in their community - a highly esteemed position. Meanwhile, our society puts schizophrenics on drugs and shuns them. What is right and wrong? And this is just a difference between two HUMAN societies, not taking into account the dilemmas we’re in with other species who are much more helpless to our whims. For example, climate change and the resulting increase in CO2 is terrible for us, but more CO2 is awesome for plants! They love it! The only reason we stress about it is that it’s bad for our biology, a completely self-centered view. Anyway, the survival of humanity is in neither of our hands and whether we think it’d be good or bad doesn’t matter either. We’ll never know when or if humans went extinct after our own deaths. ✌️
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I am for depopulated of the planet by at least 30%. Yes time to live in space
Talk to Besos.
What has the war done to the exclusion zone?
Hi! I just wanted to say that the deaths that are attributable to Chernobyl's accident are less then 100 (considering both immediate deaths and the ones that occurred in the folowing decades). I'm not saying they're not many, but I think most people could misunderstand what you said and think they were a lot more.
Correct as I understand.
And don’t forget that a fired coal plant, as an alternative, chucks out loads of low level radiation, leading to more deaths.
That said, renewable is the way to go. Cheaper and safer.
Excellent. Loved your ease of presenting & clear explanation. Well done. Cheer from Melbourne, Australia ; )
How animals not affected by the radiation when this place is not suitable for humans for a 1000 years..
I thought I was watching a Terra Mater video! You're doing great and I hope you will grow!!
Thank you for the kind words, we also love terra mater! We hope to continue working on these interesting topics to bring more attention to rewilding and nature restoration.
You forget the fact that the 3 remaining reactors were kept running until the year 2000…
Only 31 people dies as an immediate result of the disaster… and the UN estimates that only 50 can be directly linked to the disaster… and i 2005 it predicted that a further 4000 people might eventually die as a result of the radiation exposure…
Besides this it’s very interesting to see how the nature is reclaiming the area 😊
Are these wild animals considered to have higher radioactive tolerance than humans?
My understanding is that they do not no. I believe that human activity is so detrimental that they thrive in Chernobyl despite all the radiation simply because they have less contact with humans. Even if it affects their health to an extent.
Usually the most radiation afected animals die out before they could reproduce so there's a little of selection and furthermore, if the radiation take some years to cause deadly problems, the animals can reproduce and thrive. The population will be constituted majoritarily by young animals.
No, but humans also do not die as easily from increased levels of radiation as most people think; the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rebuilt after ww2 and people there also did not die out. There are certainly more people dying from cancer, but for the human population as a whole, increased levels of radiation do not matter that much. Even if people die twenty years earlier on average (which would be a lot), this would not necessarily mean that they are less productive as a society. People growing old or very old does not contribute to economic output.
Just a much much lower life expectancy. Bad mutations die early and don't reproduce.
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Nuclear energy uses about 1/300th of the land of renewables and 2-4 times less mining of raw materials. If we build more of it it'll allow us to re-wild all the land that's covered with wind and solar, and disturb less habitat for the raw materials it takes to build the plants and get uranium.
I wonder if someone tried to research populations of rock and cave dwelling animals in Pripyat, because it really seems like those overgrown commie blocks surrounded by kilometers of wild nature could become a great spot for golden eagles, various owls, bats etc., especially when the trees get older and the houses will slowly start to fall apart. I had the chance to visit the Zone as an illegal stalker for 5 days in a row, and it was a fascinating urban exploration, but the natural beauty of that place somehow stuck to me even more.
Countless people? It was less than 50 people that died from blast injuries and acute radiation poisoning. Super bad thing that happened, but considering how many super bad things humanity has where the death tolls are much higher I think ''countless'' is a weird choice of words. Especially since there are a few official counts, making the phrasing literally untrue.
Your ignorance is stunning.
There are long term health effects just because you didn't die in a year doesn't mean you won't die from cancer in 20.
@@lennysmileyface Nice trollface :) yeah, still no countless people. It wasn't exactly a spa treatment, but the radiation levels and duration of exposure most people suffered was insufficient to cause a measurable long-term harm. Including people who died from hypothetically connected reasons decades later it is still not countless people. It's a myth perpetuated unquestioningly because people were so afraid of nuclear power. The amount of fossil fuels we have used to reduce reliance on nuclear power has killed millions of people and continues to kill at an escalating pace.
Unfortunately there were a lot of deformed, damaged and disabled children born as a consequence, who were abandoned or left in state orphanages as a result. Did you include them? A lot of long-term distress and suffering, not just what happened at the time. You are nit-picking over one word.
@@susieg4624 I'm not making any argument that it wasn't bad, just that most people are simply factually incorrect as to the degree of damage involved.
Yes, it was bad for a lot of people of course, but there is a huge discrepancy between the common perception of the harm done and what can actually be sourced to be accurate.
A lot of people over many years have been very opposed to nuclear power based in part on incorrect assumptions and irrational fears. Burning natural gasses and coal meanwhile has caused far greater damage than nuclear plant incidents.
A bit like being afraid of flying, but not of driving cars.
There's as well the green belt which used to be the iron curtain between Western and Eastern Europe
Very interesting, I'm all for re-wilding parts of the country. I feel it would probably be better to have one large area of wild land than lots of small areas dotted around the country. The small areas just aren't large enough to support the bigger animals in sufficient numbers. As an aside, at least one of you clips of Chernobyl was actually Three Mile Island.
This also happens in many parts of Balkans where there are a lot of land mines, so the animals know their way around those, and people don't come near it.
Sometimes the biggest predators and bullies for nature are human beings.
Reforestation should avoid plants that can be sold with high price. Ficus Benjamina can withold water, producing fruits, and in some culture the people won't dare to cut old tree because they believe they are sacred.
Wild ecosystems form and support conditions of our life (climate, oxygen balance, pure water, soils and etc.) Deficiency of ecosystems is the environmental problem №1 on our planet. Most part of ecosystems were destroyed by agriculture. So, rewilding will definite our future. If we don’t make intentional rewilding ecological collapse will be inevitable.
Great!
Also, check out the demilitarized zone (DMZ) on North/South Korean border. Also, dehumanized...
0:44 "Humans fascination with post apocalyptic movies, book..."
: Shows the bible:
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Very interesting! Thanks for your work!
Sadly russia has just destroyed all this
Hopefully it is resilient enough! If it survived humans and a nuclear meltdown I think it can come back from this when everything hopefully calms down.
@@MossyEarth I worry about the population of Przewalski horses there. They were extinct in the wild, so it's not a naturally created population, but someone had the idea to put a herd of horses there. People thought that this was a bad idea because of rAdiATiOn, but as you explained here, the biggest worry for most species are humans, not slightly elevated radiation (the amounts have decreased significantly, and only Russian troops managed to elevate them again). So the horses actually more or less thrived there and increased their numbers. When I heard about the Russians occupying Chernobyl, I was so worried about the Przewalskis. Do you have any information about them?
good content presented by a handsome young man.
Agree ; )
Ukraine continues to suffer.
In national park I live near, in dead center theres small town from which whole forest bigger than Chernobyl exclusions zone takes name. The town and several villages could be serounded with sound proof wall (with gates and doors for locals and tourists to still use forest). Road leading to the it is winding, narrow and very dangerous, near it in separate corridor goes neglected straight rail line, in my opinion it would be better to put both together in one walled corridor, two way electrified rail line and wider road would have less of an impact and could be build on flyover over one of valleys and have animal bridges and underpasses to connect the forest.
Wow! This was a very well-done video. It wasn't too long, repetitive or complicated, but it was clear and education and pleasant to listen to. Thanks!
got the book "the world without us"...beautifull!
Want to see wild stuff there ? I heard there's some russian conscripts digging trenches in radioactive soli
Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Yknow the rewinding this kinda reminds me of the 38th parallel border in Korea. There’s not a lot of documentaries I’ve found on it because a) it’s incredibly dangerous and b) I don’t speak Korean but what I have been able to find is really interesting and I wish people talked about it more
Could you please make a similar documentary about Polesie State Radioecological Reserve (the other half of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone)? I learnt of it recently & it bothers me that literally no one seems to talk about it anywhere except the dedicated wikipedia article.
Super interesting! great video guys!😁
Very late but commenting for the algorithm because y’all are awesome!
The wolf abundance was a pleasant surprise. I’d love to learn more about their predation patterns and preferred prey animals. In Yellowstone the wolves have mostly gone for elk (wapiti) in the past, but are starting to consume more bison as well as prey abundance shifts
Its so strange to hear the voice of Peter jenings on abc news...I remember the accident like as if it happened yesterday
...oh about the landscape...never mind the la escape...the animals living there ..will be a freak of nature ...original ecosystem ?.. what mark .have you passed your biology 101 course with ?
We desperately need to make room for nature for our own suvival as well as animals and plants'. Our rising population is only making it worse. Maybe nuclear holocaust is the answer because we clearly won't listen to reason...
And nobody is talking about the radiation effect on the animals or we just ignore that completly? And just saying hey cool there are animals again?
Thank you for making this respectful video.
I love the shots gathered for us to see.
This proves it ain't fun to survive a nuke, but it is surviveable.
I like this guy, he seems nice
Recently came across your channel. Absolutely love the vids an what you are doing. The production quality is outstanding and every video is extremely informative. Keep up the amazing work!!
The Christian Bible = an example of post-apocalyptic literature 😂 lol
So interesting! Wish you used a friendlier picture of a wolf on your first screen 😁 (too much bad publicity for wolves out there 😜😊))
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Can't wait for this to happen to Detroit
Conclusion Good news, if nuclear war took place. Wildlife might return.
I hope and pray that the land of Chernobyl will one day cleanse itself completely.
I don't believe it's true to say "countless people died". The number of people who died as a result of the Chernobyl disaster was in the tens, I think, and they have certainly been counted.
There's still those who died as a result of illnesses caused by the disaster
@@filipposgstathopoulos I haven't seen a reliable number. It is probably not easy to estimate.
A lot of people have died because of the radiation though, there are still people who were born around that time who have health issues because of that. The radiation carried across half of the continent if not whole, so the amount of people who have died because of it is countless
@@magdam1508 No evidence, just scare-mongering.
Not eating red meat would do a disproportionate amount of good for the planet
so excited to subscribe and watch more rewilding videos. they give me hope!
the abandoned city near the reactor became the habitat of dogs. their ancestors are the forgotten pets of the evacuated people. the dogs thrive, but their lifespan seems to be rather short, so that the effects of long term radiation exposure can't be documented. they don't seem to die from cancer, at least.
there are studies of shark populations living near sunken nuclear submarines. they live longer and show some behavioral changes, such as higher aggressiveness. it would be interesting to know if Chernobyl's wildlife has a longer lifespan than the dogs, and if it leads to other changes in behavior.
Take better care of your monstera😤
Like you, Duarte, I have often wondered about a world in which humans had either vanished or withdrawn. It is fascinating to see Nature reclaim the land. One thing I wonder about the high proportion of wolves and lynx? In the comparable reserves, it could be that they are hunted, especially if they dare to poke their noses over the border of the reserve.
really cool.
Super interesting!
Omg I just started watching and what excited you as a child was actually my childhood nightmare. I have no idea why but I was always terrified of the fall of civilization, which now as an adult seems a never aware childhood fear.
So get rid of people.
The only truth
You first
What 2028 will look like across most of the world
Recent digging of the ground by barbarian occupiers has proven, that living there is indeed impossible. So it will remain largely wild wether we want to or not.
Really interesting!
Very cool. Best doc on chernobyl wildlife ive ever seen and there are a bunch. Thats despite it being short. Hopefully more of these large reserves all over the world in the near future.
Yah well so long as they don’t get turned I to battle fields like Chernobyl was briefly.
Bedankt
You're tad wrong about tchernobyl severity.
It's not "countless" people who died, we actually know, it's actually 60 deaths. Then, there's a lot of speculations about people being exposed to radiation, but the fact is that there is nothing statistically measurable. If anti-nuclear activists were right and millions of people died, we would see it in the data, and we clearly don't. Btw, even if the biggest death toll estimates amongst the serious ones (by scientists) are used, it's 16.000 extra deaths over the last 50 years. Seems like a lot, but it's still magnitude lower than what we get every year in just car particles, coal emissions or even second hand cigarettes smoke. And as I said, these estimates are pretty dubious.
And that's actually why the wildlife does so well, it's because the area isn't that radioactive (except near the molten reactor itself, and by that, I mean real close, in the few meters range)
It’s a little sad that ecofacist ideology has become so pervasive that he had to specifically shut it down barely a minute and a half into the video. Effective environmentalism means keeping humans involved in the environment!
The term "ecofascism" (note the spelling) is right wing propaganda, opposing any concerns about the natural world and the environment. In fact there is no such thing, and only people who have no idea what fascism really is would use such a term.
Well not in this instance, except for fire fighting.
@@gibbogle here I use ecofacist not as a term to describe a specific political movement, but rather to describe the, in my experience, fairly widely held belief that the so called natural world would simply be better off if many or all people died, and that humans are inherently corruptive or destructive. I don’t know that I could really begin to try to describe or explain the effect that this has on wider cultural opinions about environmentalism or human rights, but I do feel it either springs from or can contribute to ethnonationalist or colonial mindsets (at least in some contexts). If you dispute this attitude existing in broader culture I would point you to any number of online or offline debates about Thanos. Thank you though, this is a good reminder not to use terms outside of established contexts. Have a great day.
@@someone16234 Ethnonationalist mindsets are not wrong in themselves. One of many good things that are too often hijacked by others and brought unfairly into disrepute.