This shocking map shows how much wilderness we’ve destroyed in just 20 years | World Economic Forum
▻https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/the-world-s-lost-one-tenth-of-wilderness-in-20-years-we-ll-have-to-act-fast
There’s a well-worn riddle that asks if a tree falls in a forest and there’s nobody there, does it make a sound. As the human population expands, that question is becoming increasingly redundant.
New research published in Current Biology shows 3.3 million square kilometres of the world’s remaining wilderness has disappeared in the past 20 years. The Amazon and central Africa are the areas hardest hit.
The red patches on the map below show where wilderness has been lost since the early 1990s. In total, 10% of all wilderness areas on Earth have vanished in just over two decades.
