Catastrophic Declines in Wilderness Areas Undermine Global Environment Targets

Immediate action to protect the world’s remaining wilderness areas on a large scale is now necessary, including in global policy platforms. All wilderness areas, regardless of their size threshold, warrant immediate scrutiny for conservation action, especially in regions with low levels of remaining wilderness areas. 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.

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