TREE Chornobyl images

Chornobyl trap camera photographs

With our Ukrainian collaborators we had 42 wildlife trap cameras running in three areas of the CEZ. The cameras were first set-up in November 2014 (see photographs of cameras being set-up) and were moved to new locations approximately every eight weeks. The study ran until approximately December 2015. The results enabled us to estimate the abundance of some mammal species within the CEZ and was, to our knowledge the first scientific study to attempt to do this using trap cameras.

Map of Chernobyl displaying areas of webcams

Northeast

Site 1, in the northeast of the CEZ, was the most contaminated of our three sites.

West

Site 2, was on the 'western trace' of the plume released by the Chornobyl NPP and had a strong contamination gradient.

Southerly

Site 3, in the south of the CEZ, was the least contaminated of our sites

Short 'movie' - photographs from November 2014 - March 2015

Sergii Gashchak our collaborator in the Ukraine has had a number of cameras in the CEZ for a few years. His camera provided the first confirmation of Brown bear in the Ukrainian CEZ. For more information see the article below:

Gashchak, S., Gulyaichenko, Y., Beresford, N.A., Wood, M.D., (2016). Brown bear (Ursus arctos L.) in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Proceedings of the Theriological School, 14, 71-84.

Highlights

First photographs of European bison (to our knowledge) in the Ukrainian CEZ. For more information see the article below:

Gashchak, S., Gulyaichenko, Y., Beresford, N.A., Wood, M.D., (2017). European Bison (Bison bonus) in the Chornobyl exclusion zone (Ukraine) and prospects for its revival. Proceedings of the Theriological School, 15, 58-66.

Bison

Webcam images. All Photo credits: Sergii Gashchak (Chornobyl Center, Ukraine)

Photographs from Sergii Gashchak (Chornobyl Center, Slavutych, Ukraine)

Photo credits: from Sergii Gashchak (Chornobyl Center, Slavutych, Ukraine). Images taken from six trail cameras deployed in the CEZ. For more images see: