Zain Tahir Tahir itibaren Allen View, 巴巴多斯 itibaren Allen View, 巴巴多斯

A wonderful book on how "cores, corridors and carnivores" are necessary for returning biodiversity to nature. Also the book includes a really interesting discussion of which I've not been able to get out of my mind. Two of the most healthy biodiverse spots on the planet are where the divisions were between Eastern and Western Europe (the Wall) and in the zone between North and South Korea, which is heavily landmined to keep all people out. Evidently nature thrives where man is not--even in a heavily armed spot--every now and again the mines being set off by probably the larger predators. I was reminded of the Chinese story about the old man whose son was given a horse. Everyone told him how lucky to which he would respond, "How do you know/" Then his son fell off the horse and was paralized and everyone told him how unfortunate, to which he again would respond, "How do you know?" These type of situations would repeat and finally there was a war, and everyone of the villagers sons marched off to war and died leaving only the old man's paralized son. Who'd have thought that anything so wonderful would have been a result of no-man zones between countries.