The direct use values where the biodiversity products can be harvested and consumed directly are called consumptive use value of biodiversity.

Humans derive countless direct economic benefits from nature-food (cereals, pulses, fruits), firewood, fibre, construction material, industrial products (tannins, lubricants, dyes, resins, perfumes) and products of medicinal importance.

– More than $25$ per cent of the drugs currently sold in the market worldwide are derived from plants and $25,000$ species of plants contribute to the traditional medicines used by native peoples around the world.