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Chernobyl Wildlife Thriving 30 Years Later

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Chernobyl, conservation, disaster, Eastern Europe, Exclusion Zone, extinct, fallout, isolation, man-made, meltdown, model, nuclear, poisoning, preservation, Przewalski’s Horse, radiation, rebound, Ukraine, Ukrainian, wilderness, wildlife, wolf, wolves

These days, wildlife is thriving around the site of the nuclear reactor meltdown at Chernobyl in the Ukraine three decades ago. Biologists say the lack of people in the “Exclusion Zone” thirty kilometers around reactor has made it easier for the animals that did survive — and their progeny — to now flourish.

Lost in the Wilderness

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The Power of Being Lost in the Wilderness

Hannah Owen Bulgaria, city dwelling, Eastern Europe, Emily Dickinson, Europe, Feral, George Monbiot, lake, lakes, mountains, nature, on the spot, rewild, rewilding, Seven Rila, Sofia, train, William Wordsworth

Hannah Owen discusses the power of being lost in the wilderness: it enlivens your senses and puts your skills to the test.

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