Study: Human-wildlife 'overlap' to increase across more than half of Earth's land by 2070

Stuart Stone
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Population growth and shifts in species distribution due to climate change are impacting where, and to what extent, humans and wildlife ‘overlap’, research warns

Human-wildlife "overlap" is forecast to increase across 57 per cent of the Earth's terrestrial surface by 2070 as a result of population growth and a shift in species distribution driven by climate change,...

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