Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity.

Many global environmental agendas, including halting biodiversity loss, reversing land degradation, and limiting climate change, depend upon retaining forests with high ecological integrity, yet the scale and degree of forest modification remain poorly quantified and mapped. By integrating data on observed and inferred human pressures and an index of lost connectivity, we generate a globally consistent, continuous index of forest condition as determined by the degree of anthropogenic modification. Globally, only 17.4 million km2 of forest (40.5%) has high landscape-level integrity (mostly found in Canada, Russia, the Amazon, Central Africa, and New Guinea) and only 27% of this area is found in nationally designated protected areas. Of the forest inside protected areas, only 56% has high landscape-level integrity. Ambitious policies that prioritize the retention of forest integrity, especially in the most intact areas, are now urgently needed alongside current efforts aimed at halting deforestation and restoring the integrity of forests globally.

The interpersonal environment.

For many radiology department employees, from transporters to radiologists, there is a great disparity between meaning well and doing well in the interpersonal arena. The missing ingredient seems to be significant training offered to employees by the institution. Providing the training is also a difficult trick for the institution because the deficits in interpersonal communication are not easily acknowledged by employees. This article has attempted to make a case for providing training and has suggested strategies that may be used by the institution to increase the probability that the training will be taken seriously. Further, a theoretical orientation to training was presented together with suggestions for the process.