Last week, at a conference in Geneva, the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization agreed on a new treaty aimed at preventing the for-profit piracy of traditional knowledge. The ...

UN talks to create a global treaty to combat biopiracy and the exploitation of genetic resources hung in the balance Thursday, a day before an agreement was due to be signed. Talks at the United ...

In the shifting landscape of global pharmacology and bio-economics, traditional botanical knowledge has emerged as a ...

The Busy Lizzie is one of the most popular plants among gardeners, providing instant colour to even the most challenging places. Yet this humble plant finds itself caught in an international row over ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Indigenous rights groups and others have long criticized the lack of benefit sharing between bio-prospectors and the local communities that inhabit ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Somewhere in the Amazon there may be flora and fauna that hold the key to curing diseases ranging from cancer to multiple sclerosis. That, at any rate, is the dream. But the ...

The European Union on Thursday set out proposals aimed at thwarting the illegal use of genetic resources and traditional medicine, a practice known as bio-piracy. A Europe-wide regulation would create ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian prosecutors said on Tuesday that they were investigating a U.S. company for alleged 'biopiracy,' accusing it of illegally using genetic components of the tropical berry ...

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FILE PHOTO: Baskets of acai berries sit on a truck waiting to be taken to market where they will be sold to the food processing industry and to the growing export market, in Abaetetuba, near the mouth ...