BBC series about the European Green Belt: Walking on the Iron Curtain

The BBC World Service produced three episodes about the European Green Belt. All episodes are available online after broadcast.

Walking the Iron Curtain: Wild lands reunited about the Central European part

Seventy years ago Communist East Germany sealed its border with the capitalist West. Mary-Ann Ochota travels the former death-zone, now transformed into a wildlife haven.

Walking the Iron Curtain: Booming Balkans

The borders of the Balkans have splintered and cracked for centuries. Can a shared effort to protect the region's flourishing wildlife heal the wounds?

Walking the Iron Curtain: Frozen frontiers about the Fennoscandian and Baltic Green Belt

How does it feel to live a hundred metres from the Russian border? Mary-Ann Ochota meets the naturalists working along the new Iron Curtain.