5.2.18 (HL)—Harvesting wild species

Wild harvest is renewable only when removal stays below recruitment and the ecosystem roles supporting renewal remain intact.

Rights, monitoring and demand control matter because slow breeders or disrupted pollinators can make a seemingly renewable resource decline.

Brazil nuts depend on intact forest interactions; a market boom that removes trees or pollinators can reduce future harvest even without clear-cutting.

Recruitment, population trend, ecosystem function, harvest rate and enforceable rules.

Wild and renewable do not mean inexhaustible.