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France Has 10 000 Hectares Prohibited From Rebuilding Around Verdun: Their Shell Holes Are Now Home to a Species that the Rest of the Country Is Losing

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In 1919, the French state banned any reconstruction on nearly 10,000 hectares around Verdun, considered too dangerous and too destroyed to live there. A century later, this "red zone" abandoned by men turned into an unexpected refuge: its water-filled shell craters now house one of the last flourishing populations [...]
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In 1919, the French state banned any reconstruction on nearly 10,000 hectares around Verdun, considered too dangerous and too destroyed to live there. A century later, this "red zone" abandoned by men turned into an unexpected refuge: its water-filled shell craters now house one of the last flourishing populations [...]

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SciencePost broke the news on Wednesday, October 7, 2026.
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