Earth’s wilderness vanishing

Scientists say more than 77% of land and 87% of the ocean has been modified by human industry and warn that urgent international action is needed to protect the planet’s few remaining wild places

Wilderness
Land
Ocean


Twenty countries contain 94% of Earth’s wilderness
Top 5 countries contain more than 70% of wilderness

	0	5	10	15 millions of sq km 	25
Russia
Canada
Australia
U.S.
Brazil
France
Kiribati
China
N. Zealand
Algeria
Libya
Denmark
Niger
Mauritania
Mali
Norway
Chad
UK
Greenland
Egypt
Others

PLANET’S WILDERNESS

23% Land free from impact of human activities
77%

13% Ocean free from human intervention
87%

Data excludes wilderness in Antarctica and on high seas not contained within national borders


Sources: Nature, University of Queensland, Wildlife Conservation Society 
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