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Perhaps the "good news" reports get more attention? You can find reports that agree with my observations. There's not a consensus on this - perhaps due to lack
by EB-Barrington 7y ago
Perhaps the "good news" reports get more attention? You can find reports that agree with my observations. There's not a consensus on this - perhaps due to lack of evidence.
My comments are based upon observations of several years of visiting, and speaking with scores of people that work/live in the Exclusion Zone. Anecdotally, large Animal sightings of things like Moose are rare enough that even people who have visited hundreds of times, over decades, will stop, get very excited, take photos, and then chat about the last time it happened.
Edit: this report agrees with what I have found (in real life)
https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article/105/5/704/2961808 https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article/105/5/704/2961808
"All major taxonomic groups investigated (i.e., birds, bees, butterflies, grasshoppers, dragonflies, spiders, mammals) displayed reduced population sizes in highly radioactive parts of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone."
- AnthonyMouse 7y ago> Anecdotally, large Animal sightings of things like Moose are rare enough that even people who have visited hundreds of times, over decades, will stop, get very excited, take photos, and then chat about the last time it happened. Isn't this what should be expected? Even in ordinary wilderness like Maine or Canada where moose are indigenous, you could spend a year in the woods and never see one.
- godelski 7y agoI spend a lot of time outdoors and while I partially agree with you it was the comment about birds and insects that piqued my interest and suggested that maybe what I read wasn't all there was. Because while larger animals may hide, insects and birds don't.