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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (326140)12/5/2002 10:42:31 PM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
46 percent of Earth is still wilderness, researchers report

"...Using databases, computer maps and satellite photos, the study found that 46 percent of the Earth's land can be classified as wilderness -- from the forests of Russia, Canada and Alaska to the Congo, the Amazon, the Sahara and New Guinea."

"That area, totaling 68 million square kilometers -- more than seven times the size of the United States -- is home to only 2.4 percent of world population, or 144 million people."

"Antarctica and the Arctic tundra make up roughly a third of that wilderness, or 23 million square kilometers..."

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