There have always been natural obstacles to the movement of plants and animals: climate, mountain ranges, oceans, but the pace of change with these obstructions offers a chance to adapt and therefore often ignites the flames of natural diversity. Human-wrought barriers however, whether they are suburban roads or international border walls, tend to have the opposite effect: They are sudden, defy nature’s logic, and, though some species may see benefits, the overall impact erodes biological diversity. Walls, however, can significantly affect natural processes too. A research from College of Life Science at Peking University found that the Great Wall of China has altered the genetic structure of the same species of plants on both sides of the wall by blocking its natural gene flow, that aids in the evolution of a species. Another version of a contemporary ‘‘Chinese wall’’ - almost 5 meter high fence in the US- Mexico border is said to block the natural flow of flood water, which in turn disrupts plant life at a UNESCO biosphere reserve in southwestern Arizona, known as Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. ‘‘The fences can curtail animals mobility, fragment populations and cause direct mortality.” Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law, October 2016 74 REFUGIUM When the Berlin Wall was torn down a quarter-century ago, there were 16 border fences around the world. Today, there are 65 either completed or under construction. The walls do little to address the roots of insecurity and migration – global asylum applications and terrorist attacks have risen hugely despite the flurry of wall-building. They are mostly effective against the poorest and most desperate, says Reece Jones, a University of Hawaii professor and author of ‘Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India and Israel’. Like the French Maginot Line—a defensive system built in the 1930s that the Nazis merely avoided while invading France in World War II—a border wall can sometimes be sidestepped with an alternative route, albeit one that is often more dangerous. Jones states that, “The substantial increase in deaths at borders is the predictable result, since it funnels immigrants to more dangerous routes through the deserts of the US southwest or on rickety boats across the Mediterranean.’’ The experience showed that the walls are not efficient against the drug threat. ‘Well-funded drug cartels and terrorist groups are not affected by walls at all because they have the resources to enter by safer methods, most likely using fake documents,’ Jones claims. In 2015 Mexican police discovered an 800 meters long underground canal for drugs transportation extending from a house in Tijuana to San Diego. The canal was equipped with a rail car system, lined with metal beams to prevent collapse and ventilated. With the rising poverty and effects of climate change people will migrate no matter what the nature of the wall is - there is always an alternative, but often dangerous route. The choice is left to the governments to make - either to continue building barricades or to seek for a more future-oriented and sustainable solution.
The Moroccan Wall of Western Sahara is an approximately 2,700 km (1,700 mi) long structure, mostly a sand wall (or “berm”), running through Western Sahara and the southeastern portion of Morocco. It separates[1] the Moroccan occupied, and controlled, areas (Southern Provinces) and the Polisario-controlled areas (Free Zone, nominally Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) that lies along its eastern and southern border. 75 DANGEROUS JOURNEY The wall between United States and Mexico is not one continuous structure, but a grouping of relatively short physical walls, secured in between with a “virtual fence” which includes a system of sensors and cameras.
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