How a Deadly Border Accidentally Saved Europe’s Nature - captivating video explainer on the European Green Belt goes online!

Equipped with his camera, filmmaker Giel van Doorn travelled the European Green Belt and captured stunning footage and real-life stories about the transformation of the former Iron Curtain into today's European Green Belt.

 

In his film, Giel travels along the European Green Belt, from the former inner German border to the Šumava Mountains in the Czech Republic and the borderlands between Italy and Slovenia. He speaks to people who helped transform a death strip into one of Europe's most important ecological networks. He explains how one of the world’s most heavily guarded borders accidentally saved Europe’s wildlife.

The film interweaves the history of the German Green Belt and the fall of the Berlin Wall with the beginning of a pan-European conservation initiative to protect natural areas along the former Iron Curtain, creating a green network spanning 12,500 km. 

Not to mention the stunning footage, Giel shares many inspiring insights from his experiences of the European Green Belt, which make this film worth watching!

You can watch the full film on YouTube.

 

For more information, please contact jessica.bitsch@euronatur.org