Why is WWF working to reduce population growth if it is slowing down globally?
Although global population growth is slowing down, this change is occurring mainly in post-industrial countries. In many developing nations growth is still continuing at a rapid rate. The world’s population reached 6.7 billion people in 2007 and the United Nations expects it to reach 9.1 billion by 2050 (medium estimate). This is a huge number of additional people and extra pressure to place on the world’s finite resources, habitats and natural processes. Much of this growth will occur in places with high biodiversity value, such as Coastal East Africa and the Eastern Himalayas.
