Countries should look to rewild their land borders as a deterrence to invasion and build up other geographical defences to attack, Europe’s environment chief has said. Jessika Roswall, the EU’s commissioner for the environment, water resilience and a competitive circular economy, said nature should be used to improve national security. “Investing in nature and using nature as a natural border control is necessary, and actually increases biodiversity. It’s a win-win,” she said. Poland and Finland, which both share land borders with Russia or Russian allies, have rewilded areas near their frontiers, making invasion more difficult. “I’ve visited them: they transfer
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