福島核電站的禁區(qū)被野生動物占領(lǐng)

福島核電站的禁區(qū)被野生動物占領(lǐng)

The 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused Fukushima’s nuclear plant to melt down prompted the Japanese goverment to evacuate a huge area as dangerous radiation spread.

2011年的地震和海嘯導致福島核電站熔毀，由于危險的輻射擴散，日本政府疏散了一大片區(qū)域。

The evacuated region, which was carved up into several zones based on how the radiation spread, has become home for a wide range of wild animals that apparently found a way to thrive amid the desolation despite the radiation.

根據(jù)輻射擴散的方式，疏散區(qū)域被劃分成幾個區(qū)域，這里已經(jīng)成為了各種野生動物的家園，它們顯然找到了一種方式，在一片荒蕪中茁壯成長，盡管有輻射。

Researchers set up cameras in all of the zones. They were able to collect more than 267,000 images over the course of two 60-day periods, providing a unique glimpse of animals roaming the Fukushima countryside — including feral hogs, monkeys and a fox.

研究人員在所有的區(qū)域都安裝了攝像頭。他們在兩個為期60天的時間段內(nèi)收集了超過26.7萬張圖片，為福島鄉(xiāng)村的動物提供了獨特的視角——包括野豬、猴子和狐貍。

“Over time, some wildlife species have responded favorably to the absence of humans, even in the presence of high radiation levels, resulting in a rewilding of the evacuation zones,” Thomas Hinton, a radioecologist at the Institute of Environmental Radioactivity at Fukushima University who worked on the study, told Earther.

參與這項研究的福島大學環(huán)境放射研究所放射生態(tài)學家Thomas Hinton告訴Earther:“隨著時間的推移，一些野生動物物種對人類的消失做出了積極的反應，即使是在高輻射水平的情況下，也會導致疏散區(qū)域的野生化。”