The area has accidentally become one of Europe’s largest nature preserves, serving as a clear testament to the detrimental impact of humans on wildlife.

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As for now, the Exclusion Zone has increasingly been opening to tourists. Post-pandemic, it might even be possible to see this accidental rewilding project up close.

When humans stop over industrializing, nature always comes back in full force. What an interesting backdrop to that phenomenon: negative effects of the force of humanity will long be felt by life that emerges here.