Following great disruption and depopulation in the 19th century, practically nothing remains of the cultures of northern and southern Vanuatu.
Therefore, measures to reduce this risk are of great importance, especially because depopulation of such birds is not a well-accepted option.
If this bizarre scheme is enacted, we will soon hear again a proposal for an infinitely greater horror that extremists advocated a few years ago: Force depopulation of the Great Plains and let the area go back to its "natural" state.
The depopulation is greatest in the Mahsud Tribal zone of South Waziristan.
"People are leaving small towns, communities are declining, and the depopulation of the Great Plains is accelerating," said Rob McKim, a vice president of the Nature Conservancy, which owns the country's largest network of prairie preserves and is spending more than $15 million this year to maintain and expand them.
Other objectives were to reverse the trend of depopulation in central-Greater Manchester, to invest in country parks to improve the region's poor reputation on leisure facilities, and to improve the county's transport infrastructure and patterns.
Today, we face the choice exactly as Friedrich Engels foresaw it a generation ago: either the triumph of imperialism or the collapse of all civilization as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration – a great cemetery.
Howard's solution to the related problems of rural depopulation and the runaway growth of great towns and cities was the creation of a series of small, planned cities that would combine the amenities of urban life with the ready access to nature typical of rural environments.
This abandonment had a far greater impact on mountain areas because of rural depopulation as well as biophysical constraints.
Especially before treatment, gonorrhea epidemics could be large and devastating, and could trigger depopulation.
