Identifier: TFG:546
Authors: OLMOS MARÍN, NOELIA
Abstract:
Necessities from the humans concerning biodiversity have been progressively modified, changing the relationship between the humans and nature, conditioned under the development of tools, science, technology, the socioeconomics and the cultural values from every different society. In recent years, through the biotechnology advance, and other factors like globalization, the capitalist system, the facilities to get trademark registrations and patents in the international ambit, as well as international agreements about intellectual properties, have facilitated the bio-piracy. Bio-piracy is substantially more frequent in megadiverse areas of the planet, where a high cultural and biological diversity is focused; it is refereed to exploitation, handling, exportation and international commerce of biological resources which violate the rules from the Biological Diversity Convention from 1992. It’s a modern kind of piracy. It is not only wildlife smuggling, but too appropriation and monopolization of traditional knowledge from the villages, without the agreement from the authorities or the communities, it generates great earnings for the industries but without giving any gainto the country or the community where they come from. Ergo, the bio piracy is used basically by the great companies which main business are bio-business and affect directly and seriously to all the communities and villages which natures provide, through their traditional practices, all the necessary to get covered their first necessities.
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