Here is a sad comparison:
By the Red List reckoning, the planetwide total for all wild apes amounts to 350,000 individuals, down from premodern figures estimated in the millions.
Source - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/science/gorilla-shot-harambe-zoo.html
Meanwhile, Earth's human population may once have been less than 10,000 but now is on its way to peak at 9 billion.
Source - http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/22/163397584/how-human-beings-almost-vanished-from-earth-in-70-000-b-c
I never heard anyone claim that wild apes were destroying the environment or threatening to overpopulate this planet. Have you?
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