1.6 million acres of Great Plains grasslands were destroyed in 2021 alone, World Wildlife Fund says
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Over the course of 12 months, an area of Great Plains grasslands bigger than the state of Delaware was erased from the map. In 2021 alone, 1.6 million acres were plowed across the United States and Canada to make way for primarily row crop expansion, according to the World Wildlife Fund’s