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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
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 [...]