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Series exploring the complex interface between a growing human population and wildlife

Monty Don presents a series exploring the complex interface between a growing human population and wildlife

Shared Planet: The Problem of Population

The Problem of Population

11/06/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Shared Planet, The Problem of Population

Is there room for wildlife in a world with an increasing human population?

Monty Don presents a new series exploring the interface between a growing human population and wildlife. He begins with the example of the chimney swift in North America.

Monty Don presents Shared Planet, the series that looks at the crunch point between human population and the natural world. In this programme Howard Stableford reports from Connecticut on the complex decline of the once very ubiquitous Chimney Swift, a story Monty Don believes is the paradigm for the series. The wider issues of human population and nature are explored in the studio with Lord May, past president of The Royal Society and from Vienna, Professor Wolfgang Lutz, a specialist in human population dynamics.

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