http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2015/human-population-07-29-2015.html
Unchecked Human Population Growth Means Disaster for Wildlife
TUCSON, Ariz.— A new revision to the United Nations’ World Population Prospects predicts that the world’s human population will reach 9.7 billion by 2050 and exceed 11 billion by 2100. The world’s current human population, 7.3 billion, is nearly double what it was in 1970.
“It’s no coincidence that we’re in the middle of a mass wildlife extinction crisis right as the world’s human population is going through the roof,” said Leigh Moyer, the Center for Biological Diversity’s population organizer. “The more people you add, the more demand you create for fossil fuels, timber, water, food and space. All of that ultimately leaves less room for wildlife and wild places.”
The report also projects that the population of the United States is likely to reach 389 million in 2050, growing by more than 200 million people since 1950.
“The population problem isn’t some abstract crisis. There’s a lot we can do right here in the U.S. to make a difference,” Moyer said. “Simply by being conscious of the impact human population growth has on the environment when planning our families — and the choices we make as consumers — we can start to turn those numbers around and reduce our footprints on the planet.”
The Center’s population and sustainability program promotes a range of solutions, including universal access to birth control and family planning, as well as education and empowerment of women and girls.
Among the ways the Center highlights the connection between human population growth and the wildlife extinction crisis issues is the distribution of free Endangered Species Condoms. More than 600,000 have been given away since 2009.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 900,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
Exposing the Big Game 
What a depressing thought. As if things weren’t bad enough now, many cannot seem to see the approaching problems of animals treated more and more cruelty for food, trees cut down for development, rain forests destroyed for farming and cattle ranching, habitat taken from wild animals who will starve, be hunted as pests, or run down on highways, and thousands of the poor and desperate trying to escape corrupt and failed states and adding to the economic problems of more developed countries. Yet, the articles on the Cecil’s murder are marred by people appalled at those who worry about a lion while abortions continue. The human population juggernaut is headed for doom and is dragging the rest of creation with it. And still we proclaim ourselves to be the only rational and intelligent beings on this earth!