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The most effective strategy involved sterilizing about 22% of adult female koalas each year in areas with the highest population densities rather than applying the approach across the entire region.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

Areas with relatively high - but not the highest - population densities are also set to fare well, it estimates, including outer London boroughs and councils in Blackpool, Nottingham and Slough.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2025

In fact, in the places where kelp forests were most healthy, otter population densities were at their highest.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2024

They lived in small, nomadic groups with low population densities and endured frequent local extinctions, which produced much lower levels of genetic diversity than we see in living humans.

From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023

As we saw in previous chapters, that evidence is important because food production led to high population densities, germs, technology, political organization, and other ingredients of power.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond