Just 5 countries have 70% of world's wilderness

Researchers recently found that 70% of the world's remaining untouched wilderness is in just five countries. According to a study that published in the journal 'Nature', an urgent international action is required to protect them. In 2016, scientists charted the planet's remaining terrestrial wilderness and in 2018 examined which part of the world's oceans remained free from the damaging impacts of human activity. In this study, researchers showed a global map to show which countries are responsible for nature that is devoid of heavy industrial activity. The study identified that Australia, the US, Brazil, Russia, Canada as five countries that hold the vast majority of the world's remaining wilderness. The study excluded Antarctica and on the high seas that is not contained within national borders. The study defines wilderness as the only places that contain mixes of species at near natural levels.