Protected areas now cover nearly 17% of Earth’s surface: U.N. report

Mongabay
May 20, 2021, 10:01 am232 pts
The area of protected land on Earth has increased to seven times the size of India since 2010, according to a report released May 19 by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The addition of 2 million square kilometers (more than 770,000…

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