More than 90 per cent of protected areas are disconnected

14 Sep 2020
Most protected areas are isolated in a sea of human activities. Image: James Wheeler

Ongoing land clearing for agriculture, mining and urbanisation is isolating and disconnecting Earth’s protected natural areas from each other, a new study shows.

Lead author Michelle Ward, from The University of Queensland's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, said the findings were "alarming".

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