Among the types of buffer zones can be distinguished demilitarized (that is, free from military operations), green ecological corridors, territories with small restrictions and stripes with a strict restrictive regime.
The challenge of ecological corridors in reserves
What does the buffer zone mean? This concept was originally used by specialists in the protection of the biosphere and the green belt of the Earth. A strip of neutral land with a length of several kilometers and a certain width is located between ordinary areas and the border of the protected area. The objective of this territory is to protect and preserve rare species of plants and animals.
In biosphere reserves, they monitor the state and conservation of the biosphere, conduct scientific research, and monitor the general condition of the environment. On the territory protected by the state, land reclamation complexes are carried out. In economic activity, restrictions are usually imposed on deforestation, hunting and plowing of land.
What is the buffer zone of the reserve? In addition to protecting, studying and developing the fauna and flora on its territory, the zones often become places of interesting routes for lovers of eco-tourism. A milder regime is maintained on this territory than on the rest of the protected area, even some forms of agricultural work are permitted.
How is the buffer zone of reserves
In the territory of any national park, areas have been allocated that form the so-called reserved core. It is here that the rarest and most valuable plant specimens grow. It is here that populations of rare, legally protected animals live, breed and conserve. This is where the cleanest, oxygenated air is.
What is a buffer zone? These are lands located around the core of a reserve or park. Further, already around these protected areas, a transitional zone is created on the territory of which the usual economic activity for these places is carried out. Transitional territories are not forbidden for visiting by tourists and local people.
The scheme for maintaining the inviolability of certain land plots is often used in world practice of resolving military border conflicts.
Border Fence Efficiency
One of the main components that distinguishes the buffer zone at the border from the reserved, green, is a very high fence. The metal or stone structure is equipped with a sophisticated system of sensitive tracking sensors. Any attempts and methods of penetrating the territory of the zone cause an instant response of the stretch and the signal arrives at the patrol checkpoint, the tracking monitor. By means of cameras and devices capable of seeing during the day and at night, the operators on duty at the points monitor the inviolability of barriers around the clock.
With the installation of security barriers, the population of nearby buildings leaves their housing. Nobody wants to test on themselves and their loved ones what the buffer zone is. Although all this is done in order to protect citizens.
Control strip
In order to better understand what the buffer zone of the border is, you need to observe specially trained ranger soldiers. On a previously plowed strip of land that lies along the entire border with the zone, they carefully look for traces of the penetration of violators.
The next part, which consists of the buffer zone at the border, is a dividing strip of soil directly near the fence wall. This part is sometimes called the "dead zone". Here there is a complete absence of any plants, stones and buildings, any large objects that can become a shelter. Usually this strip is made from a width of 200 m to a couple of kilometers.
Who guards the strip of the buffer zone
A stone or wire fence, which is a complex system consisting of several different barriers, is what the buffer zone is. The staff of the operators monitors the readings of devices and security cameras, and the signals coming from the fence systems. Patrol soldiers watch around the clock guard their sites for several kilometers of the zone. Armored platoons or tank platoons help soldiers with their support. Patrol is conducted from two sides, sometimes ambushes are used. Almost every meter of the territory is viewed in time to notice and neutralize the violation of the peace regime.
Looking at such a picture, one can guess that in order to maintain the effectiveness of the “magic” fence, serious financial injections and human resources are needed. Of course, the creation of such corridors, judging by examples from world practice, solves some problems and makes it possible to end hostilities.