‘Crunch time for biodiversity’: Farming, hunting push thousands of species toward extinction

Mongabay
Jun 7, 2017, 11:25 am144 pts
Unless we sort out how we feed the growing human population, thousands of birds and mammals will face the specter of extinction in coming decades, according to a new study published June 1 in the journal Nature. “With so many people on Earth now, and the numbers increasing by another 3 or 4 billion before we…

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