Who are the real pests?
Since Charles Darwin sailed around South America less than 200 years ago – a blip in the Earth’s history – the human population has mushroomed exponentially, from less than 1.2 to around 3.5 billion in 1968 and now approaching eight billion people.
This uncontrolled population growth is the inconvenient truth we can no longer skirt around, as David Attenborough recently warned. Now, two papers have highlighted its impact on wildlife through disrupted ecosystems.
Published by Cosmos.
