10% of the earth’s wilderness has disappeared since the 1990s

‘A new study has revealed that the amount of terrain untouched by man has been on a downward spiral for the last 20-some-odd years. A team of researchers led by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Australia’s University of Queensland has found that 10 percent of the earth’s vibrant wilderness has vanished over the past two decades.
In just 20 years, over 1.2 million square miles of wild terrain has been destroyed – an amount of land that is twice the size of Alaska, the largest state (by land mass) in the United States. Central Africa and South America (most notably the Amazon) have been hardest hit by the decline in wilderness. South America has lost roughly 30 percent of its wilderness space in the last 20 years. Africa has experienced a 14 percent loss.’
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