The location and protection status of Earth’s diminishing marine wilderness

conservation planning
cumulative impacts
Author

Jones, Klein, Halpern, Venter, Grantham, Kuempel, Shumway, Friedlander, Possingham, Watson

Published

August 6, 2018

The published paper and data are available on-line.

In this paper we identify “marine wilderness”, or relatively undisturbed areas of the ocean, based on cumulative human footprint data and it’s level of protection.

Sand islet in the Coral Sea, credit Bruce Rocherieux

Video abstract for Jones et al. 2018

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