Scientists for the first time in the last hundred years has received photos of brown bears, returning in the so-called Chernobyl exclusion zone, informs.

The image bears were obtained from camera traps placed in the radioactive area, to monitor how the radiation exposure affects the lives of animals.

" Our Ukrainian colleague Sergey GAMAK established several camera traps, to understand what is happening to wildlife in the area of alienation ", - told the head of the project at the University of Salford Mike wood.

The scientist also said that the photos are the first evidence of the presence of brown bears in the zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after the disaster.

" Before this there were versions that brown bears and previously lived in this area, but, as far as we know, no one had photopatterning of their stay in the Ukrainian region of alienation, " said Mike wood.

according to the researchers, radioactive contamination was obliged to affect the habits of animals, such as their food preferences and habitat.

The accident at the Chernobyl NPP ogromneishee nuclear disaster in the world - took place on the night of 25 to 26 April 1986.

in the end, disaster radioactive contamination only in the Russian Federation has undergone district 19 subjects with a population of about 30 million people. The area contaminated with cesium-137, was more than 56 thousand square kilometres with a population of about 3 million people.

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