Tag: wilderness

September 30, 2019

Wild areas halve extinction risk for plants, invertebrates

Plants and invertebrates are twice as likely to survive on undeveloped lands, according to a recent study in Nature. Dividing the earth’s land surface into square-kilometer grids, researchers found that,...

January 22, 2018

Researchers assess state of wilderness

In the last two decades, 10 percent of the world’s wilderness has been lost, according to new research, from the boreal forests of North America to the rainforests of Papua...

June 8, 2016

Wild animals and wild lands: Inextricably entwined?

The concept of “wilderness” is deeply entwined with the animals that live there. Now, a paper in the Journal of Forestry has proposed ways for future research to tease that...