Chernobyl—a place of rebirth

Chernobyl’s story is a story of destruction and rebirth. In April 1986, when the No. 4 nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant exploded, it killed the life of this city and everything that it touched. For years since, we have been seeing images of abandoned homes and listening to stories of survivors. But nature has her way, and Chernobyl is slowly transforming into an ecological haven now, and could be a magical place in the years to come.
Once home to 120000 people, the area and its peripheries do not resemble their former self. The radiation that was 400 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bombing had forced it to become a ghost city. But now plant and animal life have returned to this land, and it looks sublime.

Eco-tours for tourists
The APB-Birdlife Belarus group is putting together wildlife tours at Chernobyl that is teeming with wild animals of various kinds. Here, you can find elk, deer, foxes, wolves, and more species of animals making this abandoned land their home. Sometimes, you might also spot rare species such as the Przewalski’s horse and European lynx. It is believed that these animals have comfortably made Chernobyl their home due to human absence.

The idea for the Chernobyl eco-tourism is to show visitors how nature works, and what it can do in the absence of humans. The APB-Birdlife Belarus group claims that this area is the closest thing to true wilderness in Europe.

These visits are safe for visitors as they last only for a limited period of time, and are undertaken with strict safety procedures in place.