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Humans have been reshaping ecology across most of the Earth for at least 12,000 years, but ancient civilizations did not misuse the land like today s inhabitants, a new study reveals.
A team of international scientists determined for most of history, humans have occupied the same amount of land across the globe and by 10000 BC, nearly three-quarters of the surface had been transformed.
The new analysis also contradicts the notion that most of Earth s land was uninhabited as recently as 1500BC.
However, the main cause of the current biodiversity crisis is not due to the destruction of uninhabited wildlands, but rather the appropriation, colonization and misuse of resources.
PNAS) shows that land use by human societies has reshaped ecology across most of Earth s land for at least 12,000 years. The research team, from over 10 institutions around the world, revealed that the main cause of the current biodiversity crisis is not human destruction of uninhabited wildlands, but rather the appropriation, colonization, and intensified use of lands previously managed sustainably.
The new data overturn earlier reconstructions of global land use history, some of which indicated that most of Earth s land was uninhabited even as recently as 1500 CE. Further, this new
PNAS study supports the argument that an essential way to end Earth s current biodiversity crisis is to empower the environmental stewardship of Indigenous peoples and local communities across the planet.