This means that on average, every year for the next 50 years, the world population will grow by about the number of people that live now in Italy, and totalpopulation growth over the next 50 years will be more than twice the size of the current population in China.
Today, a herd of takins lives within a refuge at the edge of Thimpu, the sleepy capital of a country the size of Switzerland with a totalpopulation of just 700, 000.