Health programmes for diseases such as malaria and TB are in vogue, but investment in health workers remains insufficient to meet the needs of local populations.
Tory insiders acknowledge that they have recently introduced eye-catching measures in areas with high immigrant populations – including adverts telling illegal immigrants to go home – as they try to hold on to white working-class and lower middle-class voters who are moving to Ukip.
"Our rural populations were in a black hole," he says.
Backup colonies, insurance populations, or captive breeding troupes – whatever your preferred term – have increasingly become the norm in amphibian conservation.
Harris suggests that APOBEC3H could be the target of future gene therapy, aimed at making susceptible populations more resistant to the virus.
Meanwhile, Muslim villages were destroyed and whole populations forced to move to accommodate European farms and industry.
We believe that this kind of message will resonate better with rural populations," Ike said.
Assuming vampires only feed once a month ("a highly conservative assumption given any Hollywood vampire film"), and that each time a vampire feasts upon a human their respective populations increase/decrease by 1, a simple geometric progression suggests that vampires would wipe out humans in approximately 2.5 years (assuming arbitrarily that the first vampire appeared in the year 1400).
Major flashpoints in our changing climate are gradually forcing political leaders to prepare their populations for a radically different global environment.
In Britain, eco-enthusiasts dream of state-sponsored organic farming, of farmers' markets supplying local produce for everyone, of city gardens feeding urban populations.
In a world in which cross-border student numbers are growing at twice the rate of domestic student populations, both the UK and Australia generate major export income as providers of English-language education, charging Asian and African students fees well above those paid by local students.
