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As a result of a project called "The Estonian Green Belt" that EMÜ took part of, a book and a movie about the topic have been released. 

"The idea of the green belt started in the 70s when it was noticed that the highly guarded border areas of the Soviet Union had very beautiful indigenous parts of nature that had remained untouched my the human factor. After the Iron Curtain fell on 1989 all countries connected to it worked towards creating a belt of protected natural parks," the coordinator of the project, Kalev Sepp said. The Estonian part of the same belt has now been put on map and according to Sepp it promotes protecting the nature on one hand and draws attention to the culturally important military objects on the other hand. 

Estonian University of Life Sciences took part of a project of a program called INTERREG, for which the students and academic staff of the university mapped the culturally important military objects on the border areas of Estonia where the Iron Curtain once was. Altogether 1268 objects were mapped, for example the Airport of Haapsalu and the Nuclear Reactor of Paldiski. Among other things, the project helps develop military tourism in Estonia. 

The Estonian partners of the EMÜ were MTÜ Läänerannik and the Nature Protection Society of Estonia. The foreign partners were Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany and Russia.

More information: http://www.balticgreenbelt.uni-kiel.de/