A study published recently in Current Biology shows devastating losses of globally significant wilderness areas. Professor William Laurance of James Cook University highlighted reasons for protection of these areas, including: biodiversity, carbon supply, and the fact that poor tribes are living in these wildnerness areas. Between 1993 and today, an area the size of Alaska has been destroyed from human activity. WWF-UK’s director of science and policy has stated about the issue "We need significant changes in how we value our planet as at present we’re taking relentlessly from our oceans, rivers, forests and wilderness."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/08/humans-have-destroyed-a-tenth-of-earths-wilderness-in-25-years-study
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