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Published online 5 December 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021202-7

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Half the Earth still wild

Unspoiled areas offer low-cost conservation opportunities.

The unspoiled areas offer the opportunity to save large amounts of nature at little cost, say conservationists. But human pressures on wilderness are increasing, they warn.

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