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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"blog",<br>"author":"mehboobali",<br>"permlink":"humans-have-destroyed-10-of-earth-s-wilderness-in-just-25-years",<br>"title":"Humans Have Destroyed 10% of Earth's Wilderness in Just 25 Years",<br>"body":"![war-2930223__340.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmbyv5vAFkWTupEUuFYK6AVdkRR7FLpeg9yKUvof9LSQbu\/war-2930223__340.jpg)\nA recent report has found that over the past two decades,<br> we\u2019ve lost a tenth of the world\u2019s wilderness,<br> thanks in no small part to mining,<br> illegal logging,<br> agriculture,<br> and oil and gas exploration.\nThat means since 1993,<br> an area twice the size of Alaska has been stripped from the plant and animal species that depend on it,<br> and wilderness now amounts to just 23 percent of Earth\u2019s total land mass.\n![full.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmQaMBFFXz7rZ7YEgy96QCbuopFvyQRcSutUxjmRWTnHhE\/full.jpg)\nIn all the campaigns to save everything from polar bears to pandas,<br> there presents a tendency to not see the proverbial forest through the trees. A recent study pointed to that very issue,<br> finding that the Earth's wilderness has decreased by 10% in the past two decades and with very little publicity.\n![Vuntut-National-Park-1200x800.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmWykSQrDuGsPdSrfBGqPk3A3q6CGtaKWD1Syx5YivG15n\/Vuntut-National-Park-1200x800.jpg)\n\"The continued loss of wilderness areas is a globally significant problem with largely irreversible outcomes for both humans and nature,<br>\" says the international team of researchers behind the study.\n\"If these trends continue,<br> there could be no globally significant wilderness areas left in less than a century.\"\n![Atomic-Scientists-North-Korea-Nuclear-Missile-Claims-Are-a-Hoax-1.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmeuJidAVAMBY26xQfJZJwjMxaRufcye5goVZE71gu7LQA\/Atomic-Scientists-North-Korea-Nuclear-Missile-Claims-Are-a-Hoax-1.jpg)\nVast areas of pristine wilderness have been destroyed in recent decades,<br> amounting to twice the size of Alaska,<br> at 3.3 million square kilometers. These wilderness regions range from the Amazon rainforest to African deserts to boreal forests. If projections continue,<br> the study predicts that there may be no pristine wilderness areas left within a century. This,<br> however,<br> can be significantly limited by implementing global protected areas that cross country borders.\n![pexels-photo-145939.jpeg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmcMpCkUTiE2nfr2jUHT3AekS9UrvvbogP8T91qTQkCHXt\/pexels-photo-145939.jpeg)\nThe researchers found that the Amazon and Central Africa have been hardest hit when it comes to declining wilderness - defined as biologically and ecologically intact landscapes that are mostly free of human disturbance.\n\"These areas do not exclude people,<br> as many are in fact critical to certain communities,<br> including indigenous people,<br>\" the researchers stipulate .\n\"Rather,<br> they have lower levels of impacts from the kinds of human uses that result in significant biophysical disturbance to natural habitats,<br> such as large-scale land conversion,<br> industrial activity,<br> or infrastructure development.\"",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"blog\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmbyv5vAFkWTupEUuFYK6AVdkRR7FLpeg9yKUvof9LSQbu\/war-2930223__340.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmQaMBFFXz7rZ7YEgy96QCbuopFvyQRcSutUxjmRWTnHhE\/full.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmWykSQrDuGsPdSrfBGqPk3A3q6CGtaKWD1Syx5YivG15n\/Vuntut-National-Park-1200x800.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmeuJidAVAMBY26xQfJZJwjMxaRufcye5goVZE71gu7LQA\/Atomic-Scientists-North-Korea-Nuclear-Missile-Claims-Are-a-Hoax-1.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmcMpCkUTiE2nfr2jUHT3AekS9UrvvbogP8T91qTQkCHXt\/pexels-photo-145939.jpeg\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " |
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