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A new study questions whether hunting is the primary driver of major drops in animal populations, suggesting that destruction of animal habitats through farming is a potentially bigger threat. According to a study published Tuesday in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers found that farming was the key factor in the eradication of large mammals on the island of Madagascar. The findings highlight that hunting is not the only way — “or perhaps even the main way” — that humans impact the wild animal populations around them, according to a statement from the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, which carried out the research. "Our results suggest that occupation and alteratio

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