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In Bali, Aboriginal people grow crops in the midst of a diverse tropical forest. EDUCATION IMAGES/UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGES
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Since the 1960s, conservationists have had a standard solution for saving biodiversity: Protect natural areas from human influence. But a new analysis of Earth’s land use going back 12,000 years suggests that even in the time of mammoths and giant sloths, just one-quarter of the planet was untouched by humans, compared with 19% today. 

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