Africa: When Humans War, Animals Die

Jan 10, 2018 | Ed Yong, Atlantic
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Together with Rob Pringle, from Princeton University, Joshua Daskin compiled 65 years’ worth of data on the abundance of large mammals across all of Africa. These populations, they found, were stable during peacetime, but almost always fell during periods of war. And in explaining declines in wildlife, nothing mattered more than war—not human population density, the presence of towns or cities, protected reserves, or droughts.