Unsustainable Logging, Fishing, Hunting Are the Main Factors of Extinction Crisis

An unprecedented global extinction crisis is now threatening our planet. More than a million species are expected to go extinct in the next few decades, according to scientists. A groundbreaking analysis found that one in five people worldwide depends on wild animals, plants, and fungi for their food and means of subsistence. However, the report found that many undomesticated animals are not being collected responsibly, endangering global food security. Experts predicted that one million species of animals and plants could become extinct in the ensuing decades in 2019, and uncontrolled fishing, hunting, and logging are responsible for a large portion of this, as per BBC News. The sustainable usage of wild species is now deemed essential for both people and nature in a new report by the same organization. Additionally, more species may be pushed to the limit because of climate change and rising demand, endangering the availability of food. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) equivalent for climate scientists is the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Their most recent review, which was accepted by 139 nations in Bonn, Germany, focused on how to conduct logging, fishing, and hunting more sustainably without endangering biodiversity and food security. It was discovered that 50,000 species of wild animals, plants, and fungi serve as a source of food, medicine, fuel, employment, and other necessities for billions of people worldwide. Approximately one-third of oceanic wild fish are overfished, unsustainable logging threatens over than 10% of wild trees, and unsustainable hunting has driven more than 1,300 mammals to extinction, according to the assessment.