Just like Chernobyl, wildlife is thriving at Fukushima almost a decade after nuclear disaster

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Almost a decade after the nuclear disaster, wildlife photos show the site is becoming a hotbed of local wildlife.

Beasley and colleagues gathered and compared photographic data from three zones that differ in terms of human habitation. The first covered an area where humans were excluded due to high levels of contamination. The second an area where humans are restricted due to a lesser but still reasonably high level of contamination and the third that remains inhabited, which served as a control.

In total, Beasley and colleagues collected more than 267,000 wildlife photos captured over 120 days. The images show several species are flourishing in the exclusion zone, popping up more frequently in areas that are entirely uninhabited by humans than those that are. The wild boar—the most abundant species studied—cropped up in more than 46,000 photographs. The researchers found that it was three times more abundant in the human-excluded zone than the human-inhabited zone.

There was one exception to the rule: the Japanese serow, a goat-like animal that appeared to prefer rural upland areas inhabited by humans. The species usually keeps its distance from humans and this strange behavior may be an adaptive strategy to dodge the robustly stocked wild boar communities living elsewhere, the researchers say.

 

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- nowhere in the study did the researchers state the animals are thriving. To the contrary, they indicated that their findings have nothing to do with their health. Don't lie.

Key phrase in this article: 'thriving in the absence of humanity'. Humanity is not very humane at all.

Stuff doesn't immediately die when walking past. Great.

Which goes to show that the humans are the problem.

The animals just glow now! 🤦‍♂️

Nothing to see see see here

But at what cost to the DNA chain? Fragmented DNA can maim but not kill! Nuclear safe propaganda💥💨🔥💨

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