Berlin Wall

I can't get my head around this, and the more photos I look at the more I realise, Just how insane it was. When we were talking about re-enacting the Berlin Wall event, our interest lay in the space between the two sides. Sarah described it as a sort of 'no man's land' where they later, they discovered new species of wildlife, which nobody had come across before.

I found a small section of an article at good old Wikipedia

' The Sperrgebiet has a diverse range of flora and fauna, due to little human intervention in the area for 100 years. Forty percent of the landscape is desert, thirty percent is grassland, and twenty-eight percent is rocky. The highest point of the Sperrgebiet is 1488m. There are around 776 types of plants in the Sperrgebiet with 234 being endemic to south-west Namibia, despite the Orange River being the only permanent water supply in the area. A study has shown that climate change will affect the plant-life in the area, specifically the Succulent Karoo. Drier winters may lead to the extinction of these plants, as they are endemic to the Sperrgebiet. According to Morgan Hauptfleisch, a scientist who works at theSouthern African Institute for Environmental Assessment, the Sperrgebiet "is the only arid biodiversity hotspot and this makes it a very special area." Animals such as the gemsbok, springbok and brown hyena can be found in the area, and the Sperrgebiet has more biodiversity than anywhere else in Namibia. Bird species resident in the Sperrgebiet include the African Oystercatcher, the Black-headed Canary and the Dune Lark. '

I like the idea of looking at boundaries, reclaiming and territory...as starting points at least.