Does that mean the region won't be starving? Since there is no mouth to feed? No provision wasted? ![Wink ;)](https://forum.battlemaster.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
The reason you use up provisions in starving regions—and on the sea—is because there is no food to be foraged in the area.
If there's nothing living in the region, where do you think you'll be foraging food...?