Food supply of billions under threat as a million species face extinction

One in five people rely on wild plants, algae and fungi for their food and income, 2.4 billion rely on fuel wood for cooking and about 90% of the 120 million people working in capture fisheries are supported by small-scale fishing.

Up to a million wild species are facing extinction, many within decades - leaving billions of people who rely on them for food and income exposed as the biodiversity crisis worsens.

Those are some of the stark findings of a major new report on the sustainable use of wild species from 85 leading global experts, 200 authors, and 6,200 sources which also warned that the likes of medicine, energy, and materials are under threat.