Professor Carver collaborated with local communities to map wilderness and wild land around the world and inform conservation policy, including the new guidelines.

In 2024, he was awarded an Impact and Engagement Award for this thorough, impactful work.

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Professor Carver’s work to map the wilderness helped inform the guidelines.

He and colleagues at Leeds' Wildland Research Institute created innovative tools to map the world’s wilderness as a foundation for protecting it.

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