Biopiracy: How companies are buying up nature



Medicines and cosmetics use substances derived from nature. But Bioprospecting can turn into biopiracy. More and more companies are patenting natural ingredients making billions. It can come at a cost to the environment and traditional communities living in biodiversity-rich regions.

Credits:
Reporter: Louise Osborne
Video Editor: David Jacobi
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk

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Read more:
European Patent Office accepts biopiracy argument and revokes patent: https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/23505-epo-accepts-biopiracy-argument-and-revokes-patent

World Intellectual Property Organization: Leveraging economic growth through benefit sharing: https://www.wipo.int/ipadvantage/en/details.jsp?id=2594

The Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit sharing: https://www.cbd.int/abs/

Corporate control and global governance of marine genetic resources: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aar5237

Traditional Knowledge Digital Library: http://www.tkdl.res.in/tkdl/langdefault/common/Home.asp?GL=Eng

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:45 How It Began
02:28 Patently Questionable
05:25 Exploitation of Nature
07:12 Ethical Biotrade
08:38 Taking to the High Seas
10:50 The Road Ahead

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