The world's carbon stores are going up in smoke with vanishing wilderness

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Watson, James;Laurance, Bill;Mackey, Brendan;Allan, James
William Laurance
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[Extract] The Earths last intact wilderness areas are shrinking dramatically. In a recently published paper we showed that the world has lost 3.3 million square kilometres of wilderness (around 10% of the total wilderness area) since 1993. Hardest hit were South America, which has experienced a 30% wilderness loss, and Africa, which has lost 14%.

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The Conversation

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16 September 2016

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The Conversation Media Group

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