Watson, James, Laurance, Bill, Mackey, Brendan, and Allan, James (2016) The world's carbon stores are going up in smoke with vanishing wilderness. The Conversation, 16 September 2016. pp. 1-4.

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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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Keywords:	climate change, deforestation, forests, habitat fragmentation, roads, wilderness
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Date Deposited:	21 Sep 2016 05:33
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