A new map shows where people have the lowest impact—but are those the best places to protect?
A newly created map reveals the “wildest” places on Earth—places where humans have the lowest impact. The findings could be used to support the push to set aside half of Earth for nature, its authors say.
Roughly half of earth’s land has minimal human impact.
A compilation of four methods for mapping human impact reveals in detail where humanity’s influence on the natural world is considered to be low.
Tundra
Boreal forest
Tibetan
Plateau
Sahara
Arabian
deserts
Amazon
Rainforest
Australian
deserts
Kalahari
desert
Where humans have low impact on the land
All methods classify these areas as having low human impact.
Agreement among the methods is mixed.
None of the methods classify these areas as low impact.
35% of analyzed land
11%
9%
14%
30%
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Exposing the Big Game 
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..you mean we haven’t ruined the entire planet…..yet???
Not the deserts…oh, wait, humans already caused them to be lifeless wastelands…