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Sustainable Use of Wild Species
July 18 , 2022
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- The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released a report recently.
- This report has found that with the accelerating global biodiversity crisis, a million species of plants and animals are facing extinction.
- The assessment shortlisted five categories of practices used for wild species - Fishing, Gathering, Logging, Terrestrial animal harvesting.
- About 70% of the world’s poor population is directly dependent on wild species.
- 20% source their food from wild plants, algae and fungi.
- About 34% of marine wild fish stocks are overfished and 66% are fished within biologically sustainable levels.
- The survival of an estimated 12% of wild tree species is threatened by unsustainable logging.
- Illegal trade in wild species represents the third largest class of all illegal trade.
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