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Bison walk in the 30 km (18 miles) exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor near the village of Babchin

Bison walk in the 30 km (18 miles) exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor near the village of Babchin some 370 km (217 miles) southeast of Minsk February 3, 2009. Wildlife in the exclusion zone has been teeming despite radiation, since people left the area around Chernobyl after the 1986 nuclear disaster, keepers of the ecological reserve said. Picture taken February 3, 2009. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (BELARUS)

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