Animals will soon have nowhere to live: humans have developed 75% of the planet's land

Today, I prepared material on the extent to which humanity has already developed terrestrial ecosystems. It turns out that we have altered 75% of them to suit our needs and continue to push nature further and further into isolated fragments of once-living ecosystems: we enclose them and continue to tear them apart. About 25% still remains with wild nature, but according to another study, only about 2.8% are functionally intact ecosystems. These are the figures.

For the headquarters, I want to share direct links to scientific works.

The first is titled Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and was conducted by the Intergovernmental Platform. Hundreds of experts participated in this global meta-study. It provides data on the "development" of 75% of the land and that about 1 million species of plants and animals are on the brink of extinction: https://files.ipbes.net/ipbes-web-prod-public-files/2020-02/ipbes_global_assessment_report_summary_for_policymakers_en.pdf

The second scientific work, from 2021, conducted by other scientists, is titled Where Might We Find Ecologically Intact Communities? It provides data specifically on the extent to which functionally intact ecosystems have been preserved. It also presents very interesting data: https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.626635

I am currently trying to write in a simplified manner for readers, as we are facing a barrage of serious problems, lacking the time and energy for anything else. Many things are closed now, several areas of activity have been halted, and we are still figuring things out. Nothing is clear yet.

But we are holding on.