Restore.

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“It has inadvertently become one of the most

important wildlife conservation sites in

the world.” - - Alan Weisman.

“If you want to know what the world would look

like if humans suddenly vanished, the DMZ

would be a good first place to look.” - - Alan Weisman.

Here with some pretty cool stuff.

A world without man. NOT totally so but mostly so. A landscape, flora and fauna proliferating in a natural manner, generating and re-generating itself, a restoration taking over fifty years, the predations and activities of mankind being "healed". The wild state as existed 10,000 years ago before man became "civilized".

A small glimpse into such a world as can be seen in Korea. The Demilitarized Zone [DMZ]. A landscape mostly devoid of the human presence, too dangerous for habitation or development. A landscape given back to the wild state, again, for over fifty years now. All thanks to military action and WAR!

Read it all. Most interesting.

"Korean demilitarized zone now a wildlife haven"

"Now there’s a move to keep it that way – and perhaps bring North and South Korea closer together."

NOT SO SURE ABOUT BRINGING NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA TOGETHER, THAT IS PIE-IN-THE-SKY, BUT NONETHELESS, THE DMZ AN EXAMPLE OF NATURAL RESTORATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT OCCURRING!

"Seoul, South Korea - - Just 30 miles north of this pulsating metropolis is one of Northeast Asia’s last bastions of biodiversity. This stretch of wilderness is home to migrating flocks of rare cranes and some of the last wild bears and leopards in the region."

"the notorious Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that divides the two Koreas . . . it is the most dangerous and heavily militarized border in the world."

"The de facto wildlife preserve encompasses 390 square miles of diverse terrain virtually untouched by human development for 55 years."

A landscape that contains some very rare wildlife to include:

* Bears.
* Lynx.
* Siberian Leopard.
* Siberian Tiger?
* A variety of rare cranes.

Animals not found anywhere else in all of Korea?

Here from the wiki entry: "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman:

"Written largely as a thought experiment, it outlines, for example, how cities and houses would deteriorate, how long man-made artifacts would last, and how remaining lifeforms would evolve."

NOT merely evolve, but re-generate to the state as existed prior to man becoming the dominant species as has been for the last 10,000 years or so. The landscape and wildlife recovering to a state what is referred to as "pristine"!

And as is now found in the DMZ!

coolbert.