The wildlife and landscapes of the outback are in peril and, perhaps surprisingly, part of the problem is the lack of people.CONSERVATIONISTS often reasonably assume that as the world's human population continues to grow, the spaces for nature are shrinking. But in outback Australia, a key challenge for the survival of our native wildlife is the opposite: there are not enoughpeople.I first saw this on the ground in 1981, when I travelled across the Tanami Desert to conduct bird surveys for the first Atlas of Australian Birds project. It was an extraordinary experience.
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