SEZONUL: 27
EPISODUL: 15 - Iron Curtain: Ribbon of Life
SINOPSIS
The physical, ruthlessly guarded Iron Curtain between the free West and Soviet block was a nightmare for people, but a sanctuary for wildlife, some of which thrived nowhere else. After the fall of the Berlin wall, biologists research how birds, and other species, fared in the former no man's land, first in Germany, then further south.
When the Iron Curtain was ripped down 20 years ago, it left a thin strip of land stretching 13,000km across Europe that was like an ecological time warp. The barbed wire, guards and land mines that had kept humans out had also provided a sanctuary for wildlife. In this inspirational and uplifting film, German biologist Kai Frobel describes how he discovered that a diverse range of plants and creatures had flourished, including bears, lynx, eagles, fish, vultures and wolverines. He set up an international m