Ask people what the biggest threats to wildlife are, and many will answer something like ‘climate change’ or ‘plastics’. We are used to the images of a starving polar bear, a burning koala, or a bird with its beak trapped in the plastic rings from a six-pack. Sure, these are a threat to some wildlife. But the biggest is often forgotten: how we feed ourselves. It has always been this way. While new threats have emerged, the biggest threats today are the same as the ones in the past. Overhunting and agriculture have been responsible for 75% of all plant, amphibian, reptile, bird and mammal
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