Step 5. Scroll through the various options and click on the ‘Protecting the Earth’s Wild Places’ option.
You will now see the virtual globe switch to a new layer where you will see the global distribution of untouched landscapes. National Geographic has also provided a report alongside this new layer option, that makes it easy for us to understand what the various colors mean and what the situation could be like in the years to come.
So far, the data that is available has been collected between 2005 to 2017, and the report was compiled in 2018. As we speak, data is being collected from the more recent trends and hopefully, the next iteration of this report will show an improvement over the current one.
