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Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology show catastrophic declines in wilderness areas around the world over the last 20 years.
They demonstrate alarming losses comprising a tenth of global wilderness since the 1990s – an area twice the size of Alaska and half the size of the Amazon. The Amazon and Central Africa have been hardest hit…
Read Full Article, Science Daily (09-08-2016)
Study: One-tenth of Earth’s wilderness lost since the 1990s; CBS News (09-12-2016)
The researchers behind the study say they hope that the sobering revelation that rich natural habitats like the Amazon have been decimated in a relatively short amount of time will act as a wakeup call to global leaders to emphasize conservation efforts in their environmental protection policies…
New map shows alarming growth of the human footprint, Science Daily (08-24-2016)
Scientists say a new map of the ecological footprint of humankind shows 97 percent of the most species-rich places on Earth have been seriously altered…
