A lost Pandora on Manhattan

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Once Manhattan was a land of beauty and ecological harmony. It consisted of many different ecological zones and had a rich and varied fauna and flora. Here also lived the Lenape people who was a part of the web of the ecological interdependencies that formed this island.

Today the soil of Manhattan is covered by concrete and steel. The hills are levelled, the springs and pond is gone and most of the animals. Where peaceful indigenous villages stood, now sterile towers rise to the sky.

In an interesting research project the old landscape has been restored, digitally and we can get a glimpse of a lost world. May this project also can serve as a warning, not to cover our whole world in steel.

This video tells about the Manhatta project. It also gives a hope that one day parts of Manhattan will be liberated and some of the trees, forests and animals will come back:

Eric Sanderson pictures New York -- before the City | Video on TED.com