Iron Curtain Wasn’t All Bad

By Corey • December 7, 2009 • No comments yet

I’m not making light of the forced separation of eastern European countries from western Europe during the Cold War, but it turns out that the Iron Curtain, in addition to preventing people from crossing borders, also greatly lowered the the number of alien species being introduced. BBC has the story.

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Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

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