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Its astonishing when you think about it. An entire continent (safe for Russia and scandinavia) has been completely stripped of its nature
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>>2862702
>nature/wilderness
Not the same thing. Europe has plenty of nature, it's just all human-influenced in some way. There are great efforts to preserve at least fragments of natural biomes and prevent species from being extinguished.
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>>2862833
Wilderness is by definition not managed, except that which is needed to limit human impact of use. Most of europes forests are replantings for specific purposes like timber and are managed for those purposes.
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>>2862833
>And what is the difference?
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>>2862871
Oh cool, it just means there‘s wildlife oversight infrastructure. Explains why my time in German forests (where nature preserves are over a quarter of the country‘s land) felt as isolated as those in national forests at home in the US.
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>>2863128
Oh, fuck off.
Germans have absolutely no clue about isolation and wilderness. That’s why it’s a meme for Germans to die in America while hiking. Germans are one of the most pampered know it all peoples.
I‘m both German and American, btw.
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>>2864487
America has almost none of their old growth forests left too. After visiting genuine old growth, it drives me insane knowing that that used to be the norm everywhere in my part of the state. Even now there's fragments of old growth that are coveted by logging companies. Logging is a disease.
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>>2862711
They/I have never been in a primal forest.
I viewed many pictures of Białowieża primal forest in Poland/Belarus, I understand there are decaying logs, old trees, more biodiversity and a buffalo reserve, but for me it looks like most other forests in the same biome in Europe.
There are pists, human settlments and tourism industry next to it or in the polish reservation.
It's not some wild euro temperate jungle.
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>>2864515
America still has both a larger percentage and a larger total amount of old growth forest land.
But old growth forest is just one part and a small part at that. The wilderness preserved in america also includes desert and alpine and arctic.
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>>2862702
Corsicas nice, live there and can do nature every day, tho continuum is kind of a mid metric imo, afaik a simple foot path ruins it even tho it doesn’t affect or endanger flora or fauna
also it’s not rlly isolated cause dickhead tourists keep making the trails lose all sense of immersion so I mostly hike in the off season when there’s a bit of snow
However some valleys are a lot more lonely than others, find the right one and u can have some great isolation and forage provided nobody makes a tourism campaign for it
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>>2862711
You can go innawoods in replanted forests. Some have even been replanted to have a natural variety just for recreation. There is just less wilderness by the american definition; land that retains its primeval character and is untrammeled by man.