Who inhabits noman’s land?

The lost terrain where no-one can live turns out to be a paradise for animals. A ’no man’s land’ generally refers to a stretch of terrain that falls under no clear jurisdiction and is often contested or claimed by different sides, who leave the area unoccupied owing to the mortal danger it can at times harbour, such as minefields. T

he term entered common usage during the First World War. At that time it referred to the stretch of land between the two opposing lines of trenches, the death zone separating the warring armies.

More recently, it has been used to describe geopolitical areas with very different characteristics, like the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the ‘Green Line’ in Cyprus or even an urban no man’s land, such as the one that divided Jerusalem until 1967.

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