It even affects birds. Both sides have filled a good part of the front ultra-thin fiber optic cables that are used to guide in air attacks and avoid enemy electronic jamming.
And scientists can’t believe they discovered that Birds have begun to reuse discarded fiber optic cables to weave their nests. This is clear evidence of how an armed conflict impacts nature.
As reported by the British media senior researcher at the kyiv War Museum, Yana Hrynko, has examined two such nests formed with fiber optic cables after they were sent to the museum directly from the front line by personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Objects such as bird nests with fragments of fiber optics reveal the change in the nature of war,” highlighted Hrynko, who detailed that “the first nest contains mainly dry grass and fiber optic cable. And it’s pretty well braided.”
Specifically, researchers have reported that one of the two nests will remain in kyiv as part of the War Museum’s war collection of the Ukrainian capital, while the other will be sent to the Netherlands for study. He will later be returned to Ukraine.
“I have never seen nests like this”
In that sense, Auke-Florian Hiemstra, a 33-year-old biologist settled in the Dutch city of Leiden, has highlighted, in statements compiled by The Independentthat Ukraine has rich avian biodiversity, which means that many species could have built nests with that material.
The expert has stressed that “I have never seen nests like thisand I have seen many bird nests”, so “Let’s look for traces of DNA that are still in the nest to determine who actually built it.”
