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An inspection of a legal shipment of wildlife pelts. Credit:: Catherine J. Hibbard/USFWS
May 21, 2020
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For years, people have been predicting a pandemic could wipe out a large number of humans. The reason is simple: As our world population pushes toward 8 billion, it’s clear wildlife and natural systems cannot tolerate our abuses. In addition to spewing chemicals and gases that drive air pollution and climate change, humans destroy habitat and traffic in wildlife to our own detriment. 

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