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| Ted Turner runs his yap: Wants a Nature Preserve in the Korean DMZ |
| 2005-08-17 |
| DORASAN, South Korea (Reuters) - Media mogul and conservationist (I'm not holding my breath that they'll be "unified") The 248-km (154-mile) long and 4-km (2.5-mile) wide DMZ stretches from one end of the peninsula to the other. It has been a no man's land for over 50 years and because of that, the band of land has also become a wildlife sanctuary that is the home to some of the world's rarest birds as well as a variety of plant and animal life. "This is a project worthy of doing," Turner said on Wednesday at Dorasan Station, the last station in South Korea that government officials say will serve as the rail link with North Korea once tracks are connected and political hurdles allowing train traffic have been cleared. (Wonder if Kimmie's ridden the rails lately?) CNN founder Turner had just finished a two-day trip to North Korea where he advocated building the park and he also broached the idea with South Korean officials, organizers of the park said. Turner pledged to make an unspecified financial contribution to Why don't we let PETA fanatics out there to "research" these birds? The two Koreas have well over 1 million troops who face each other across the DMZ, but there has been virtually no human activity in almost all of the DMZ since it was established by the armistice that ended the 1950-1953 Korean War. The two Koreas are technically still at war because a peace treaty has not been reached. Of course, the lefties don't recognize that kind of technicality, do they? Parts of the DMZ were once littered with corpses due to the heavy fighting, but without human activity for more than half a century, nature has returned in abundance. In addition, the DMZ crosses mountains, prairies, swamps, lakes and tidal marshes, giving the area a large amount of biological diversity. "With ducks and bunnies too!" According to figures compiled by environmentalists for South Korea's Gyeonggi Province, there are about 2,900 different plant species in the DMZ as well as about 70 different types of mammals and 320 different types of birds. In addition, there are tens of thousands of landmines and pieces of unexploded ordinance in the DMZ because of the heavy fighting during the war. There are also periodic explosions when animals such as a deer stumble into mine fields. Again, any volunteers from PETA to research the area? Turner is one of the largest private landholders in the United States and has been an outspoken advocate of I thought it was a "nature preserve." Wonder if Teddie will now be riding in Jane's vegetable oil fueled van for a "peace park"? |
| Posted by:BA |
| #11 Except for the deer, which boom nicely, Mmmm, yummy deer sausage! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2005-08-17 20:01 |
| #10 RC - pretty funny :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-08-17 19:07 |
| #9 The nature preserve will be called "BarbaPETA." |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2005-08-17 18:57 |
| #8 It's just a ploy to get back with Jane. |
| Posted by: hey mo 2005-08-17 14:47 |
| #7 The wildlife is there, mojo. Except for the deer, which boom nicely, the critters are too small to set off the mines. Actually, it's a lovely study in Nature taking back its own when left in peace. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-08-17 12:16 |
| #6 how did some this crazy get so rich? |
| Posted by: Thraing Hupoluper1864 2005-08-17 12:11 |
| #5 What wildlife? There's over 10 MILLION MINES in that DMZ, pal. |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-08-17 12:03 |
| #4 Nature - that's like animals and stuff, right? Sweet, delicious animals. And grass and trees for bark? Sign me up! /NorK |
| Posted by: BH 2005-08-17 10:25 |
| #3 This just proves Ted Turner is a cruel, cruel bastard. He's going to fill an area defended by mines, artillery, machine guns and wire with a massive number of wild animals -- in plain sight of one of the most famine-ridden populations in the world. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-08-17 10:14 |
| #2 HE'S AS WACKED AS F**KIN' JIHADI JANE!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Posted by: ARMYGUY 2005-08-17 10:10 |
| #1 Yeah, real cool ted! Gotta have peace to run a peace park. Brilliant! Is there any chance you could get the vain, untalented and idotic ex on board to scout out the DMZ on foot alone? |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-08-17 09:25 |