Radioactive Chernobyl Horses Are Happier Without Humans
How to live a better life, according to a horse.
Humans ruin everything.
That what the Przewalski endangered horse residing on the radioactive site of Chernobyl thinks. (Okay, I put those words in their little horsey mouths.)
The month before I was born a nuclear power plant in Chernobyl exploded. When 116,000 people are forced to evacuate an area forever, and it is described as “poisonous for 1000 years,” it’s not hard to imagine a post-apocalyptic landscape.
As a young adult I watched an episode of 60 Minutes that took the audience inside the control room of the famous nuclear site. The episode was truly frightening. Chernobyl was described in intimate detail like a house of horrors full of dead people and deformed folk. The thought of Chernobyl has scared me for years. That was until I read about the radioactive Chernobyl horses.
Dr Mike Wood and Professor Nick Beresford presented a different Chernobyl. They wanted to show the remarkable ability for nature to thrive without polluting humans and their compass of desires. During the course of a year they used cameras to capture more than 90,000 camera days worth of footage, and take 155,000 images.
