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Borderline bureaucracy




San Rafael State Natural Area
31.371558608623015, -110.5901472797687





Tuli Safari Area, Zimbabwe
-21.95599815133534, 29.117078827472227





Near Bountiful, British Columbia, Canada
48.99654951391125, -116.41803234752706





Near Skäckerfjällen Nature Reserve, Sweden
63.87010624847425, 12.55344868937412





Near health camp named after Yu.A.Gagarin, Russia
52.357061020873935, 33.50383705458295





Near Wild Horse, Alberta, Canada
48.99880962536089, -110.4354637400743





Near Waitchie, Victoria, Australia
-35.34252693219577, 143.1412340216228





Near Akanous, Namibia
-24.488209221911543, 20.0793205333718





Border Chile | Argentina
-51.02982477989034, -72.32343990974996





Narriearra Caryapundy Swamp National Park, Australia
-29.009434700954483, 142.59294219917285
concept 24
by Peter Manuel



The designation of nature reserves and national parks illustrates the arbitrariness of human decision-making. Nature (in beige in the images on the left) often seems to border non-nature along lovely geometrical shapes. When nature spreads across a national border, it could lose its status then and there. Even rivers sometimes disappear from the map as they flow into the next country.

Bureaucracy adds layers of complexity to what was obvious and natural. There is always a purpose to bureaucracy, inspired by an all-too-human desire to tame the world by adding rules and regulations.

Nature does not care much about bureaucracy. If nature is not actively destroyed as a result of a bureaucratic policy, it is hard to see any difference on both sides of a border. Click the coordinates below the images to view the area on Google Maps, then switch to Satellite View: only the water will remain visible.

Colour scheme used:
— National parks, nature reserves and similar: beige
— Country borders & water: black
— Other areas: white

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