Southeast Asia, notably Malaysia, is an area where human impacts on studied wildlife are the highest. However, human impacts were found over 84% of the globe's terrestrial surface area. The most concerning finding is that 1,237 species, nearly a quarter of the animals assessed, were affected by threats across more than 90% of their distribution. According to one the researchers, the obvious need is to protect the cool spots, which have the least impacts threatening wildlife survival. All of North America is relatively low in impacts, but not if the current rabidly exploitative administration has its way. A researcher said, there is till room for optimism because every threat studied could be stopped by effective conservation action.
