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Chapter Title: Mapping the last wilderness areas on Earth
Book Title: Living planet report 2020: Bending the curve of biodiversity loss
Author(s)
Watson, James E. M.;Williams, Brooke;Venter, Oscar
Published
2020
Abstract
Advances in satellite technology allow us to visualise how the Earth is changing in real time. Human footprint mapping then shows where we are and aren’t impacting land on Earth. The latest map reveals that just a handful of countries – Russia, Canada, Brazil and Australia – contain most of the places without a human footprint, the last remaining terrestrial wilderness areas on our planet.
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