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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>A new study has found that nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War are a major cause of high levels of radioactivity in central Europe\u2019s wild boar population.<\/p>\n

The radioactivity found in wild boars has previously been blamed on the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. But the new research concludes that earlier nuclear weapons testing in the 1960s is a significant cause. Other wild animals\u2019 radioactivity levels have dropped over the years. So many wondered why the wild pigs\u2019 contamination levels remained so high.<\/p>\n

After testing meat from 48 boars in Germany\u2019s state of Bavaria, scientists from Vienna\u2019s University of Technology and Leibniz University of Hannover found that their radioactivity is to a significant degree caused by older, Cold War nuclear bomb blasts which are still affecting the soil in the area.<\/p>\n

Writing in the Environmental Science and Technology journal, the scientists say that radioactive caesium from the tests have sunk into the earth, contaminating deer truffles \u2013 the food favoured by wild boars, who dig into the soil to find them.<\/p>\n

But the truffles \u2013 and the subsequent contamination of wild boars \u2013 is unlikely to abate any time soon, the study says. This is because more radioactive caesium from Chernobyl will seep further into the soil, further contaminating the truffles.<\/p>\n

The boars\u2019 continued contamination threatens the Bavarian forests themselves, the study says: as the animals are not shot for their meat, their populations are growing unsustainably.<\/p>\n

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