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Chernobyl is to become a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and a wilderness

A pack of grey wolves passes by a remote camera within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The landscape surrounding the failed nuclear reactor now supports a large population of wolves due to the limited human activity.

PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES BEASLEY AND SARAH WEBSTER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE


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