Sentences with phrase «growing human populations often»

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Earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters often showcase the worst in human suffering — especially when those disasters strike populations who live in rapidly growing communities in the developing world with poorly enforced or non-existent building codes.

While many ethnic groups have hunted wildlife for subsistence over millennia, often with highly detrimental effects [8], the unsustainablility of this practice has accelerated in many areas due to growing human populations, an increasing tendency for wild meat to be traded commercially [9], and the widespread adoption of firearms and motorized transport that increase the efficiency and spatial extent of hunting [10,11].

The global conservation movement is little more than a century old and, throughout its life, has displayed a consistent and defining characteristic: a brave and worthy but often futile struggle against the forces of growing human consumption, typified by persistent and widespread declines in species» populations, habitats, and natural resources, and the rising specter of climate change.