"If these trends continue, there could be no globally significant wilderness areas left in less than a century."

"You cannot restore wilderness. Once it is gone, the ecological processes that underpin these ecosystems are gone, and it never comes back to the state it was. The only option is to proactively protect what is left."

"If we don't act soon, it will be all gone, and this is a disaster for conservation, for climate change, and for some of the most vulnerable human communities on the planet," says Watson. "We have a duty to act for our children and their children."

Source: http://www.sciencealert.com/humans-h...-just-25-years

So to all of the ATRLers here, are we just gonna sit and argue about nonsense things? We should act now because this is just so sad!

we're over let's face it

OMG

so sad

I give the human race another 25 years so the big picture of all this amazing ecological mess we're causing right now has its consequences and we get really f*cked up

Forests only cover about 30% of the Earth (if I remember correctly), and with humanity withdrawing Earth's natural capital at a rate of 30% faster than it's being produced in the present day, we have to focus on preservation in order to have a future.

10% in just 25 years. T_T Dear God, help us please T.T

I think the real problem here is overpopulation, we need to stop

It's because all these dumb straight people won't stop having kids. Learn to pull out!

Well congrats to us I guess

So sad. Poor mother earth.

The Earth is more forested now than it was 100 years ago.

this is so sad

im screeching

Pretty sure America and China are responsible for at least 5% of that.

it's also true that in 25 years we've made huge progresses so hopefully we won't ruin much more in the future

And Brazil.