India, Dec. 10 -- The trade has become highly unsustainable, a report by theIntergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has said

It is not just the illegal trade in wildlife that has been denuding populations worldwide. Even legal trade has increased manifold in the last three decades and has become highly unsustainable, according to a new report released December 10, 2020.

The report has been prepared by the by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), an intergovernmental organisation established to improve the interface between science and policy on issues of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

It is based on a workshop, held virtually from Jul...