German hunters shot around 3,000 wild boars contaminated with radioactive cesium-137 last year, according to Bild.
Such animals appear due to elevated radiation levels in forest areas across several regions. This is a consequence of the Chernobyl disaster — cesium-137 has a half-life of about 30 years, so it still persists in some places today: in plants, mushrooms, and the animals that feed on them.
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