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🛢️How Big Oil manage to sell fossil-based #plastic to food brands.
💄 The "Gold of the Incas" oil coveted by cosmetic manufacturers in Europe and Asia. #Biopiracy
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📬 Get the stories straight in your inbox: voxeurop.eu/en/our-weekl...
#IndigenousPeople medical plant knowledge is vital for #CulturalHeritage and #biodiversity
In #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦 secrecy helps protect traditions from #biopiracy, overuse and #climatethreats - supporting SDG15 and safeguarding community wisdom. #Ethnobotany #SDGs 🌍
Paper: isdsnet.com/ijds-v14n11-...
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"An antibiotic discovered on Easter Island in 1964 sparked a billion-dollar pharmaceutical success story. Yet the history told about this “miracle drug” has completely left out the people and politics that made its discovery possible."
Interesting read!
🙏 @dailygrail.com
#biopiracy #medicine 🧪
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Biopiracy: When companies steal nature's secrets and indigenous knowledge.
➡️ www.science-by-trian...
#Biopiracy #CSR
Convention on Biological Diversity (Biodiversity 🦗)
The Convention on Biological Diversity, known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is a multilateral treaty. The Convention has three main goals: the conservation of biological diversity ; the sustainable use of its components; and the […]
TIL: Heads up for new exotic species of invasive ants.
“Demand for rare insect species is growing,” says BBC Africa: youtube.com/shorts/ah8Cl...
#AntSmuggling #AntCollecting
#BioPiracy #myrmecology 🐜
#paywall
#BiometricCataloguing #PrivacyRights I dont think I can express how vile this is. #BioHacking #BioWarfare #BioPiracy
#BiometricCataloguing #PrivacyRights I dont think I can express how vile this is. #BioHacking #BioWarfare #BioPiracy
Smuggling of a species that is not listed by CITES, not even by the IUCN, but amounts to #biopiracy, (contravenes the provisions of the Nagoya Protocol)
#InternationalEnvironmentalLaw
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Prachtige (maar ook verontrustende) video over Dr. Debal Deb, die India's stad en land afreist om inheemse rijstsoorten te verzamelen en te behouden voor de toekomst.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Jx...
De afname in variëteit heeft kwalijke achtergronden.
#biopiracy
#monocultuur
#kleptocratie
#Genetics #ProprietaryInformation #CRISPR #BiodiversityConvention #Biopiracy
In Digital Genetic Data, An Uncertainty Over Ownership
undark.org/2025/03/05/d...
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But these data still come from organisms, and these organisms come from somewhere. Add politics and policies to the equation, and ...
According to V. Suresh Kumar, the district agriculture officer, these GMO maize seeds were sourced from multinational companies, and #GMO seed trials conducted without proper documentation and accountability may result in severe legal consequences, including penalties for #biopiracy
Text reads, "Science and the Public: Biopiracy and Indigenous Sovereignty. This panel discussion will feature the following panelists: legal scholar Ikechi Mgbeoji (York University), Clayton Brascoupe, the Program Director of the Traditional Native American Farmers Association; and UW-Madison’s Claudia Calderón, Jean-Michel Ané and emeritus sociologist Jack Kloppenburg. Fluno Center. Howard Auditorium (1st floor). April 3, 2025 from 6 PM to 8 PM."
Learn about #biopiracy and #IndigenousSovereignty with our department's Claudia Calderón and Jean-Michel Ané on April 3rd from 6-8PM in Howard Auditorium in the Fluno Center.
Learn more: sts.wisc.edu/event/scienc...
Today at WIPO @wipo.int ACE 17, South Centre delivered its statement, emphasizing need to prevent #biopiracy while addressing counterfeiting in #biotechnology sector. A balanced #IP enforcement approach is key to protecting biodiversity & traditional knowledge!🌱⚖️ www.southcentre.int/south-centre...
It’s Perfectly Fine To Patent Inventions Obtained By Immoral Means Says European Patent Office - www.techdirt.com/2024/11/20/i... morals, who needs them? #epo #patents #biopiracy
The 193 member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization agreed to a groundbreaking new treaty requiring patents to disclose if an invention was derived using Indigenous and traditional knowledge.
wildhunt.org/2024/05/land...
#intellectualproperty #indigenouspeoples #biopiracy
Cannabis #Biopiracy #Regulations The Cannabis Embassy team, have been following UN work on seeds by World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO for years. In a month, we need to be in Geneva ➡➡➡ lnkd.in/d2RAZSvY ⬅⬅⬅ for the Diplomatic Conference which will inaugurate and approve this new treaty.
Cannabis #Biopiracy #Regulations The Cannabis Embassy team, have been following UN work on seeds by World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO for years. In a month, we need to be in Geneva ➡➡➡ lnkd.in/d2RAZSvY ⬅⬅⬅ for the Diplomatic Conference which will inaugurate and approve this new treaty.
Looking forward to discussing Ben Neimark's new book:
"Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious #Conservation Labor in #Madagascar"
#bioprospecting #biopiracy #biodiversityoffsetting #extractivism #ethnobotany 🌿
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internatio...
Does 'biopiracy' endanger world food supplies? #biopiracy #gmo #india stream.aljazeera.com/story/does-biopiracy-end... via @AJStream
