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Population Matters, formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust, is a UK-based charity [1] that addresses population size and its effects on environmental sustainability. It considers population growth as a major contributor to environmental degradation , biodiversity loss , resource depletion and climate change .
Founded in 1991, Population Matters is a leading UK campaigning charity concerned with the effects of current world population growth on the natural environment, particularly regarding climate change. It advocates for population stabilisation through improved access to rights-based family planning schemes.
Roger Martin, Chair (Population Matters) Roger Martin profile at Battle of Ideas "Overpopulation is the biggest threat to our climate" "The Great Debate UK", Reuters 16 October 2009 "the Optimum Population Trust", Rodaleworks
This is a list of organisations who promote a moderation of the size of the human population. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces.
Population Action International; Population Balance; Population Connection; Population Council; Population Matters; Population Media Center; Population Reference Bureau; Population, health, and the environment
In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species which inhabit the same geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. [2] [3] The area of a sexual population is the area where interbreeding is possible between any opposite-sex pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals from other areas.
UK population is growing by the equivalent of a city larger than Cardiff every year. At an annual growth rate of 0.4% a year (less than the current rate) our population would pass 200 million by 2310.”