CHRENOBYL WITHOUT US - HOW NATURE IS RECLAIMING THE SITE

It was April 26, 1986.  350,000 people lived in the cities of Chernobyl and Pripyat in the Ukraine.  Following the Chernobyl power plant accident people were evacuated and buildings abandoned as they were. 

 

First wild animals made their way into the area, and then the forest started surrounding the ghost cities and taking them over. 

 

And so resilient Mother Nature took on the task of bringing the area back to life.

 

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See before the accident pictures, and post-apocalyptic aerial views of the cities.  And then see how they look now, with the forest reclaiming and healing a place destroyed by men.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2402589/Vanishing-Chernobyl-Aerial-photos-devastated-town-radiation-disaster-zone-reclaimed-nature.html

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