As birth rates fall, abandoned villages become more naturalised
This is an extract from an article published in the International Edition of The Guardian newspaper on 24 January 2021. As birth rates fall, animals prowl in our abandoned 'ghost villages' Human populations are set to decline in countries from Asia to Europe – and an unusual form of rewilding is taking place "For many years it seemed that overpopulation was the looming crisis of our age. Back in 1968, the Stanford biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich infamously predicted that millions would soon starve to death in their bestselling, doom-saying book The Population Bomb... But growth has slowed – and considerably. As...
