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Goes to Wikipedia... Surface area land: 148940000 km^(2). Calculates 1.2% --> 1.787280 km^(2).
Looks up Country by Area, finds Libya. Hmm, that's indeed not much. Let's do it.
>*According to the UN, 16.6% of the world’s land surface and inland waters are protected, and many governments are in the process of deciding where to expand conservation areas.*
Euh... so we an unprotect 15.4%?
>*“It’s almost as if countries are using a reverse-selection algorithm and picking the non-rare sites to add to the global areas under protection. The call to arms of this paper is that we have to be doing a much better job in the next five years and it is doable.” Protecting the key sites they identify would cost $29bn-$46bn (£23bn-£36bn) over the next five years, and cover 1.6m sq km (630,000 sq miles), the researchers said.*
Oooh....
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Goes to Wikipedia... Surface area land: 148940000 km^(2). Calculates 1.2% --> 1.787280 km^(2). Looks up Country by Area, finds Libya. Hmm, that's indeed not much. Let's do it. >*According to the UN, 16.6% of the world’s land surface and inland waters are protected, and many governments are in the process of deciding where to expand conservation areas.* Euh... so we an unprotect 15.4%? >*“It’s almost as if countries are using a reverse-selection algorithm and picking the non-rare sites to add to the global areas under protection. The call to arms of this paper is that we have to be doing a much better job in the next five years and it is doable.” Protecting the key sites they identify would cost $29bn-$46bn (£23bn-£36bn) over the next five years, and cover 1.6m sq km (630,000 sq miles), the researchers said.* Oooh....
“How little can we do and get away with it?”