Wilderness Vanishing From Earth


	Wilderness Vanishing From Earth

invictus

6-30-2007 3:44 PM

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environment, ecology, wilderness, science, world

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9489a609-8d34-4fd7-adce-3c37fa76eb88/7F1151A5-6CF5-40E5-B195-FDDC57DB728F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/29/wilderness_pla.html?category=earth&guid=20070629101500&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0007" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/29/wilderness_pla.html?category=earth&guid=20070629101500&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0007" style="font-size: 11px;">dsc.discovery.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/29/wilderness_pla.html?category=earth&guid=20070629101500&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0007"><SPAN class="primeColor">Study: Wilderness Vanishing From Earth</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/29/wilderness_pla.html?category=earth&guid=20070629101500&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0007"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dsc.discovery.com/img/EFFE76A8-A3B0-44B0-886A-60FB79CCEF77" alt="Few Wilds Untouched" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/29/wilderness_pla.html?category=earth&guid=20070629101500&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0007">Humans have domesticated the planet to such a degree that few untouched spots remain, researchers report in a review article published in the journal <I>Science</I>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/29/wilderness_pla.html?category=earth&guid=20070629101500&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0007"><P>Earth is so tamed that conservationism should shift focus from protecting nature from humans to better understanding and managing a domesticated world, the authors said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/29/wilderness_pla.html?category=earth&guid=20070629101500&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0007"><P>"There is no such thing as nature untainted by people," writes Peter Kareiva, chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy, a non-profit group. "Facing this reality should change the scientific focus of environmental science."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/29/wilderness_pla.html?category=earth&guid=20070629101500&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0007"><P>As of 1995, only 17 percent of the world's land area remained truly wild — with no human populations, crops, road access or night-time light detectable by satellite, the authors reported.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7F1151A5-6CF5-40E5-B195-FDDC57DB728F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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