The world has lost a 10th of all its wilderness in the past two decades

The world has lost a 10th of all its wilderness in the past two decades

Wilderness areas on Earth have experienced alarming losses in the past two decades, a new study suggests. By comparing global maps from the present day and the early 1990s, researchers have concluded that a 10th of all the world's wilderness has been lost in just 20 years.

washingtonpost.com

How do we really define "wilderness" anyway? They say in this article it is areas without a "human footprint" but does such a thing even exist anymore?