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Originally Posted by Drachen

Ironically, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is doing quite well biologically. Since the humans left, wolves, beavers, eagles and bison are all thriving in the area.

Well, not really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernob..._natural_world

There have been reports that wildlife has since flourished due to significant reduction of human impact.[38] For this reason, the Zone is considered by some as a classic example of an involuntary park. Some claim that the populations of traditional Polesian animals (such as wolves, badger, wild boar, roe deer, white-tailed eagle, black stork, Western marsh harrier, short-eared owl, red deer, moose, great egret, whooper swan, least weasel, common kestrel and beaver) have multiplied enormously and begun expanding outside the zone. These claims, however, are not substantiated by any systematic census of any animal taxon.[39]

It seems that idea is just a misconception.