In Sri Lanka, Wilpattu National Park has been attacked by Tamil rebels, killing over a dozen guards and destroying facilities. This has caused a withdrawal of conservation staff, and a great increase in military activity. Some species are directly affected. But war can also be good for biodiversity, at least under certain conditions. Of course, any benefits of war to biodiversity are incidental, inadvertent, and accidental rather than a planned side-effect of conflict.
Demilitarized zones are often beneficial for biodiversity, at least temporarily.
This cross-section of Korean biodiversity contains habitats from the rocky east coast through the country s mountainous spine, including native pine and oak forest, the marshy interior basin of the Imjin river and the point where the estuary of the Han river meets the intertidal flats of the muddy Yellow Sea. It provides a sanctuary for a large diversity of Korea s species, many now rare elsewhere. About 150 Red-Crowned Cranes from Manchuria come annually to the DMZ s central basin around Cholwon. Further west, around the truce village of Panmunjom, come up to 300 White-Naped Cranes every winter. Higuchi et al .