ScienceDaily reported on an Ohio State University study that predicts as the human population increases animals lose habitat and extinction risk increases. The study predicts that the average growing nation will have 3.3 percent more threatened species in the next decade and that by 2050 the percentage of species threatened with extinction will increase to 10.9 percent.
Although past studies have shown a relationship between human population density and the number of threatened species, this study is the first time increased human population growth has been linked to new threats of extinction of other species. The article does not even include the loss of plant species.
As big a problem as climate change is, habitat loss due to human population growth and development is an even bigger and quicker risk to many species.
Read more about the study at: ScienceDaily Outlook is grim for mammals and birds as human population grows.
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