Editing Chernobyl exclusion zone (section)

=== Illegal activities ===
The [[poaching]] of game, [[illegal logging]], and metal salvage have been problems within the zone.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Davies |first1=Thom |last2=Polese |first2=Abel |date=2015 |title=Informality and survival in Ukraine's nuclear landscape: Living with the risks of Chernobyl |journal=Journal of Eurasian Studies |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=34–45 |doi=10.1016/j.euras.2014.09.002|doi-access=free }}</ref> Despite police control, intruders started infiltrating the perimeter to remove potentially contaminated materials, from televisions to toilet seats, especially in Pripyat, where the residents of about 30 high-rise apartment buildings had to leave all of their belongings behind. In 2007, the Ukrainian government adopted more severe criminal and administrative penalties for illegal activities in the alienation zone,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/events/182665 |script-title=ru:Желающие привезти сувениры из Чернобыля станут уголовниками |publisher=Korrespondent.net |language=ru |access-date=31 October 2015}}</ref> as well as reinforced units assigned to these tasks. The population of [[Przewalski's horse]], introduced to the Exclusion Zone in 1998,<ref name="Distillations"/> has reportedly fallen since 2005 due to poaching.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/14277058 |title=Chernobyl's Przewalski's horses are poached for meat |last=Gill |first=Victoria |date=27 July 2011 |work=BBC Nature News |access-date=31 October 2015}}</ref>