National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells host Carolyn Beeler about his walk across South Korea’s Saemangeum, a tidal flat on the coast of the Yellow Sea. It was a home for all kinds of birds, mammals and snakes. Now isolated behind a 22-mile sea wall, the mud flat has lost most of its wildlife.
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