Return to Nature
Instead of trying to revive the land, the French government decided to block it off to humans and return it to nature. It closed it off and let nature be in charge. The Zone Rouge is rumored to have had a considerable amount of human and animal remains on the land.
Its danger lies in the fact that millions of pieces of artillery are still scattered about. Towns in the Zone have never been rebuilt for obvious reasons. Maybe one day, the French authorities will decide to bring this piece of land back to life, but until then, it is off-limits.
The Yanomami Village
This photo of a Yanomami village was captured by a helicopter. The villagers had probably never seen an aircraft before, as they were one of the most remote groups of people in the world. They are pictured here staring in wonder at the helicopter, probably positive they were gazing up at extraterrestrial beings from outer space.
The village is located on the Brazilian side of the Brazil-Venezuela border. Just think of it. You travel all the way to the south continent, you plan your trip in advance, and then discover no one is going to let you in. Next time, plan better.
Zone Rouge
The Zone Rouge, which means “The Red Zone,” is a group of off-limits areas located in the northeastern part of France. The French government blocked off these areas following WWI and never re-opened some of them back to the public. The areas were deemed too damaged by the war to be appropriate for human use.
Zone Rough is 460 square miles and was destroyed and damaged following human conflicts. Instead of cleaning up the battlefield and coming to some sort of agreement, the French government decided to let the area go back to nature and allow it to go wild.
Svalbard Seed Vault
If there’s a need to make use of this place – it means that an apocalypse has taken place and we’re all doomed. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a seed bank located on Spitsbergen, an island that belongs to Norway. It is located in the middle of the Arctic and situated close to the North Pole.
The vault stores multitudes of seeds in the chance that a global catastrophe wipes out most of the earth’s crops. Currently, it has about 864,000 distinct seeds and the space to hold up to 4.5 million. It houses 1/3 of the world’s most important food crop seeds inside of it.
Fully Computerized
The vault is built 390 feet deep into a sandstone mountain. No permanent staff is employed there and there is not a single person who has all the codes necessary to get inside the structure. These seeds will be kept safe for an estimated couple hundred years, and a study carried out to test the feasibility of the vault has suggested that the seeds can even be preserved for a couple thousand years.
The seeds are each stored in a three-ply foil packet sealed with heat to ensure that no moisture can enter. It’s fully computerized and is monitored remotely. The vault opens only to special visitors and for the few days a year when it receives new seeds.