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The Compass Walking The Iron Curtain, Walking the Iron Curtain: Wild lands reunited Walking the Iron Curtain with Mary-Ann Ochota

From Finland to Greece naturalists are working to turn the old Iron Curtain green

  • Beware of Moose
  • Frog of Lake Prespa
  • Lake Prespa Tortoise
  • Lake Prespa from North Macedonia
  • On the Russian border
  • Lake Prespa
  • Mary-Ann meets the guru of Finnish rewilding Tero Mustonen
  • Mary-Ann meets Gunter Karste, the Brocken Gardener
  • One of 600,000 bunkers built by Albania's hardline post-war government
  • Border remains in Slovakia
  • Battered by storms
  • Flora of the Curonian Spit
  • The Brocken mountain- once a Stasi and Soviet base overlooking the West
  • Germany's Silver Forest
  • Visiting the bunkers of Bratislava
  • Guardian of Lake Prespa
  • New growth in the ravaged peatlands of Karelia

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