More than five decades after the barriers were erected, the Green Line has become an unofficial open-air sanctuary - safe from human activity - for hundreds of species of plants and animals.This rewilding, albeit unplanned by conservationists, is now literally a green line, an area of biodiversity and rich ecosystems....
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Nature thrives in Cyprus' "dead zone"
Re: Nature thrives in Cyprus' "dead zone"
An oasis like this is rare and it would be good if parts of it could be preserved post unification (hmm)
Re: Nature thrives in Cyprus' "dead zone"
Very interesting. I like the idea in a comment of keeping it as a nature reserve after (if) it is no longer needed to keep Cypriots apart but, unfortunately, it is fertile wheat country.
Re: Nature thrives in Cyprus' "dead zone"
Hopefully some of the buffer zone ground may be preserved in its natural state, which isn’t useful for wheat. I’m thinking of the wider parts of the buffer zone which bisects the older part of Nicosia, and also the woodland areas surrounding the old Nicosia Airport. But maybe that’s wishful thinking! At present its so eerily quiet there, apart from the UN troops who patrol it from time to time to preserve the peace and the status quo. A few former inhabitants had returned to their old homes there, some actually looking out over the dead zone.
