{"id":3232,"date":"2018-11-05T15:29:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/news\/resources\/letter-to-natural-history-museum\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T12:12:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T11:12:48","slug":"letter-to-natural-history-museum","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/resources\/letter-to-natural-history-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Natural History Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light curved-bottom\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2170\" alt=\"Wave banner\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/peter-chamberlain-398960-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/peter-chamberlain-398960-unsplash-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/peter-chamberlain-398960-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/peter-chamberlain-398960-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/peter-chamberlain-398960-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/peter-chamberlain-398960-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/peter-chamberlain-398960-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\"><h1 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\">Letter to Natural History Museum<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"lead\">We are writing to you as a group of concerned zoologists, natural historians&nbsp;and conservationists \u2013 who are also variously patrons, trustees or staff members of Population Matters, which advocates that both the factors of human population and consumption patterns need to be taken into account when considering the sustainable future of our planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Population_Matters-Sir_Michael_Dixon_Natural_History_Museum-20-6-17.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Embed of Population_Matters-Sir_Michael_Dixon_Natural_History_Museum-20-6-17..\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-36a05324-d57a-4a39-b667-088f987e76bf\" href=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Population_Matters-Sir_Michael_Dixon_Natural_History_Museum-20-6-17.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Population_Matters-Sir_Michael_Dixon_Natural_History_Museum-20-6-17.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-36a05324-d57a-4a39-b667-088f987e76bf\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-share\"><a class=\"fb-share\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpopulationmatters.org%2Fresources%2Fletter-to-natural-history-museum%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><div> Share<\/div><\/a><a class=\"tw-share\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpopulationmatters.org%2Fresources%2Fletter-to-natural-history-museum%2F&amp;text=Letter%20to%20Natural%20History%20Museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><div> Tweet<\/div><\/a><a class=\"li-share\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpopulationmatters.org%2Fresources%2Fletter-to-natural-history-museum%2F&amp;text=Letter%20to%20Natural%20History%20Museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><div> Post<\/div><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are writing to you as a group of concerned zoologists, natural historians&nbsp;and conservationists \u2013 who are also variously patrons, trustees or staff members of Population Matters, which advocates that&#8230;","protected":false},"featured_media":4013,"template":"","meta":[],"tags":[10,22],"resource_category":[],"class_list":["post-3232","resource","type-resource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biodiversity","tag-world_population"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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