A study published in Cell which echoes Motherboard puts this destructive capacity figures: since 1992 we have charged 10% of the wild areas of the planet . The work has been carried out by the Australian University of Queensland and startle figures: humans have jettisoned about 1.3 million square miles of wilderness areas, ie territories that they are to safeguard human development . To get an idea of the magnitude of the loss must be borne in mind that in total, now, the world has 11.6 million square miles of such regions: 23% of the planet.
The risk is not what we have destroyed, but what we are capable of destroying onwards. By 2050, that 23% is in serious danger. This would affect human life. The most affected area is in Latin America. The area of the Amazon, according to the investigators, has lost 30% of its surface, although the rates of deforestation of the Amazon have declined significantly from 2005 to 2013.
From the University of Queensland, they warn that these changes threaten the survival of hundreds of animal species that are currently endangered. And also put figures: could disappear 12 percent of mammals at risk of extinction. will also be affected indigenous communities whose livelihood depends on these places.
Climate change takes its own pace, but certainly human activity, especially since the industrial revolution, is giving a boost to the cycles of nature .
