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Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-dmzs-thriving-resident-the-crane-953694/
TIL several endangered species, especially red-crowned cranes and white-naped cranes, have found a strange refuge among the land mines, fortifications and total absence of people in Korea’s Demilitarized Zone.
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They don’t weigh enough to set off the landmines.
If there’s one thing that we’ve learned from Korea, Chernobyl and Fukishima it’s that humans are a huge disruption to nature, even compared to lethal radiation and land mines.
Is this similar to the way that the penguins have a good time around the landmine beaches of the Falkland islands?
I don’t think it’s strange. They’re moving away from humans, the most destructive and invasive species there is.
Nature finds a way
Anywhere humans don’t have open access to becomes a wildlife sanctuary.
I worked at a steelmill and because it was fenced off we had foxes, deer, hawks, all kinds of wildlife you couldn’t find 5 miles away.
I work on an Army base now so far I have photos up close with turkeys, skinks, groundhogs, deer, crayfish, foxes, snakes, frogs, 3 different kinds of turtles…the list goes on.
[2 weeks ago at the gas station](http://imgur.com/a/PAX39xK)
BREAKING NEWS
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Nature takes back land abandoned by humans that previously tried to destroyed it
I’m sure the North Koreans will start eating them soon enough.
Ah, no people. Sounds like paradise.
Yeah there’s a place with penguins somewhere that are protected by old land mines.