ApocaDocs: Half of Australia untouched by humans, says study by Pew Environment Group

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Posted Thu Aug 28 2008: from Times Online (UK):


	Half of Australia untouched by humans, says study by Pew Environment Group http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1219930069 Nearly half of Australia is largely untouched by Man, making it one of the biggest wildernesses in the world, ranking alongside the Amazon rainforest and Antarctica, a new study has found.... The other two great remaining wilderness areas in the world are the Sahara and the northern Boreal forest in Canada. "As the world's last great wilderness areas disappear under pressure from human impact, to have a continent with this much remaining wilderness intact is unusual and globally significant," Dr Traill added.

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