Humans destroyed a tenth of the world’s wilderness in just 25 years

Humans destroyed a tenth of the world’s wilderness in just 25 years –

A new study says human activity degraded an area of pristine ecosystems twice the size of Alaska between 1993 and today. Much of the loss—about a third—happened in the Amazon; 14 percent occurred in central Africa. The authors say there’s no way to restore such places to their former state, and that if we keep going at the same rate,  significant wild areas won’t exist by the end of the century. The Guardian