Turning The Tide for Endangered Animals
Our species, the Homo sapiens, has officially seized the world. For roughly 300 millennia, or most of our existence, our population numbers have risen gradually. It is estimated that there were about 170 million people on Earth around 2,000 years ago. But with the arrival of modern medicine and the Industrial Revolution, the human population exploded. Skyrocketing from a billion in 1800 to almost 7.9 billion today. Asia, the most rapidly developing part of the world, is contributing most significantly to this human-induced species decline. But just as the continent…