Cows Look Like MapsI feel sorry for the orcas.
bassadI feel like this is the same for any animal species. Does someone has a map of world’s land use for human activities ?
maybe this one ? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01284-8/figures/2
Not for the whole world, but someone recently posted this map of Germany here:
Source: x.com/cvictordus/status/1791961219143766322
From top to bottom, left to right, the bigger areas say:
- Energiepflanzen → plants grown for generating electricity
- Vegetation → vegetation, just the random plants around the place presumably
- Pflanzliche Ernährung → plant-based food
- Viehfutter → forage, i.e. plants grown to feed animals (which will mostly be used for animal-based food).
- Siedlung + Industrie → industry and the places they build to house workers
- Wohnen → housing
- Verkehr → traffic (presumably parking + roads etc.)
- Rest → remaining, unclassified areas
- Wasser → water
- Wald → forest
So, we do have some areas where animals can hang out, mainly forests, but as the map you linked points out, essentially none of it is wilderness either. The forests are commercially used and suffer from monospecies trees.
Christian Victor (@cvictordus) on X
Heute ist sie endlich halbwegs fertig, meine Grafik die visualisiert, dass der gesamte Flächenverbrauch von Solarparks in Deutschland deutlich unter dem von Golfplätzen (ca. 50.000ha) liegt. Zahlen teilweise aus verschiedenen Jahren aber die Proportionen kommen gut hin.