Average Growing Nation Can Expect 10.8 Percent More
Threatened Species by 2050
The ongoing global growth in the human population will
inevitably crowd out mammals and birds and has the potential to threaten
hundreds of species with extinction within 40 years, new research shows.
Scientists at The Ohio State University have determined that
the average growing nation should expect at least 3.3 percent more threatened
species in the next decade and an increase of 10.8 percent species threatened
with extinction by 2050.
The United States ranks sixth in the world in the number of
new species expected to be threatened by 2050, the research showed.