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Only about 23% of the world's land area is still what you'd call wilderness,

where indigenous people, wildlife, plants, and microbes get a chance to live with little or no disturbance from large human populations.

But even that current figure of 23% is down by a tenth in just the last couple of decades,

which translates into an area the size of Alaska being converted away from wilderness

since the 1990s.

That's according to a study in the journal Current Biology that was also announced at the just-completed Honolulu meeting of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

The research found that the regions that suffered the biggest wilderness losses were South America and Central Africa.

South America lost almost a third of its wilderness, while Africa's is down about 14%.

James Watson is the lead author of the study. He's with the Wildlife Conservation Society

and the University of Queensland. He's no relation to the more famous DNA double helix, James

Watson. In the journal article, he and his colleagues write, quote, The continued loss of wilderness areas is a globally significant problem with largely

irreversible outcomes for both humans and nature.

If these trends continue, there could be no globally significant wilderness areas left in

less than a century.

Proactively protecting the world's last wilderness areas is a cost-effective

conservation investment and our best prospect for ensuring that intact ecosystems and large-scale

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