Preserving Biodiversity in Korea's Demilitarized Zone-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Preserving Biodiversity in Korea's Demilitarized Zone

Published:1997-10-10 Issue:5336 Volume:278 Page:242-243
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Kim Ke Chung¹

Affiliation:

1. The author is at the Center for BioDiversity Research, Environmental Resources Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.

Abstract

Amidst international tensions and military posturing, the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea has, for 45 years, provided sanctuary to endangered and threatened animals and plants. The DMZ has been rigidly enforced: It is uninhabited by humans, and its inaccessibility has allowed damaged forests to rehabilitate and farmlands that are thousands of years old to return to a natural state. The DMZ has, in fact, become a unique nature reserve containing the last vestiges of Korea's natural heritage. The Korean Peace Bioreserves System provides a strategy to preserve the rich biodiversity of the DMZ. Joint development of the Korean Peace Bioreserves System will foster trust, understanding, and respect between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north and the Republic of Korea in the south.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Reference13 articles.

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2. K. C. Kim paper presented at the International Forum for Conservation of the Korean Demilitarized Zone Seoul South Korea 11 August 1995. In 1965 the original idea of preserving the DMZ for long-term ecological research was conceived through a joint research project on “Ecology of the DMZ” by the Smithsonian Institution and the Korean Association for Conservation of Nature. Recalling this idea I developed the concept of the KPBRS in 1994 after the Biodiversity Korea 2000 project was completed (3).

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