WDR Sunday Questions: The fight against species extinction
4/19/2020 - "Our Earth is a unique stroke of luck, a tiny life-friendly world drifting alone through a hostile cosmos." That is the inventory of evolutionary biologist Prof. Matthias Glaubrecht. He fears that the world as we know it will soon cease to exist if species extinction continues as it has. One reason for this is rapid population growth. But how can we slow it down? How can we save birds, insects, mammals from extinction?