As the Cop15 biodiversity conference enters its final days, a stocktaking meeting this weekend in Montreal highlighted a slew of unresolved issues threatening to block a strong outcome. The plenary meeting attended by negotiating teams representing more than 190 countries in Montreal acknowledged considerable progress, but also indicated that there are still many areas of …
Genetic resources emerge as a defining issue at COP15 Read More »
The countries of the South demand that rich nations share the benefits of the biological resources extracted from their lands which are then used for medical, agricultural or industrial purposes. Known as “biopiracy”, the issue is a major stumbling block at the UN’s COP15 talks on biodiversity. In 2016, Indian environmental activist Vandana Shiva spoke …
Biopiracy: the struggle for equity in the scientific exploitation of natural resources Read More »
An adult brookie is weighed and measured so biologists can track the health of the species. This brookie is unharmed, only temporarily stunned and calmed by a mild electroshock and a few drops of clove oil. The fish was soon returned to the river. (Photo: Lisa Sorg) O n a cool summer morning in the …
