AR-News: (CA) Japan-Russia cross-border park eyed

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By James Brooke
NEW YORK TIMES
TOKYO - Cranes, eagles and puffins have no trouble crossing a 20-mile-wide 
finger of the Sea of Okhotsk that separates two national parks, one Russian and 
one Japanese. But the channel has long been a scary barrier for humans.
Now, in an exercise of diplomacy, environmentalists from both sides are 
proposing something untested in Asia: a cross-border park.
It would span an archipelago of existing parks from the two countries, 
linking the Shiretoko National Park on Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, with a 
series of land and marine reserves on four disputed southern islands in the 
Kuriles, occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945.





full story:
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/news/7380665.htm

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