The German Green Belt is a nature conservation corridor created from the roughly 870 mile network of fences and guard towers that once separated East and West Germany along the inner German border. Begun in 1989 as a project of the environmental group Bund fur Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland, it turned the former Death Strip into one of the world's more unusual connected nature reserves, converting a monument to division into a corridor of renewal. Disclosed low confidence: the fetched lead does not name a single explicit IUCN category for this composite, mostly linear reserve; Protected Landscape and Seascape is a closest fit given its long-standing human and nature interaction.
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1. German Green Belt (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationEcology section
the 1,393 km-long and 177 km2 large network of habitats
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The federal government, states (Länder) and nature conservation organisations are joining forces to protect this "Green Belt" and develop it into a valuable habitat for humans and nature.
Wikipedia lead extract, realm terrestrial
It is one of the world's most unusual nature reserves, lying along the old "Death Strip," turning a monument to repression into a symbol of renewal.
View the Source Wikidata: German Green Belt
- Wikidata Q883390, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Part Of: Germany, Wikidata item, property P17 (country)
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