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thers, were profiled in a book published earlier this year, Wilderness: Earth's Last Wild Places. The analyses were primarily conducted by the Center for the Applied Biodiversity Science (CABS) at Conservation International (CI) with support from the Global Conservation Fund and the Mexican company CEMEX, in collaboration with the Mexican non-governmental organization Agrupacin Sierra Madre.

Areas qualifying as "wilderness" have 70 percent or more of their original vegetation intact, cover at least 10,000 square kilometers (3,861 square miles) and contain fewer than five people per square kilometer.

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Contact: Brad Phillips
b.phillips@conservation.org
202-912-1532
Conservation International
18-Aug-2003

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