Brown bears seen in Chernobyl after 100-year absence

Three decades after nuclear disaster forced human retreat, brown bears have colonised Chernobyl

Brown bear

A team of scientists has been using camera traps to try to learn more about the impact of nuclear radiation on wildlife.

"Our Ukrainian colleague, Sergey Gashchak, had several of his camera traps running in one of our central areas over the past few months in order to start to get a feel for what (wildlife) was there," project leader Mike Wood from the University of Salford told the BBC.

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