tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post111055271449948593..comments2024-03-18T17:10:35.838+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Henry Wickham, the Amazon river and rubber trees--the state of biodiversity and biopiracy todayVerónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-46218569707680767772015-10-13T12:21:04.125+01:002015-10-13T12:21:04.125+01:00Let us not forget that most illustrious biopirate ...Let us not forget that most illustrious biopirate William Bligh !<br />http://agro.biodiver.se/2011/07/capt-blighs-biopiracy-medal-to-be-sold/Muniteer on the Bountynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-3293799016665886322015-10-13T11:07:51.796+01:002015-10-13T11:07:51.796+01:00I well remember hearing about Wickham's Brazil...I well remember hearing about Wickham's Brazilian rubber tree exploits in a BBC Schools broadcast when I was a Junior schoolboy in the 1950's. No doubt a different slant would be put on the story in today's PC climate. Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-54461282742831632412015-10-12T23:08:31.215+01:002015-10-12T23:08:31.215+01:00An earlier, more interesting, and altogether more ...An earlier, more interesting, and altogether more likeable example of such a historical "biopirate" was the Frenchman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Poivre" rel="nofollow">Pierre Poivre</a>, who arranged to have clove and nutmeg seedlings smuggled out of the domains of the Dutch East India Company, a corporation that took much stricter measures than the Nagoya Protocol to protect its biological resources, up to and including the occasional whole-island massacre.<br />Incidentally, Poivre wrote extensively about his travels, and became an early proponent of economic liberalism, as well as an ardent abolitionist...Glad to be out of the madhousenoreply@blogger.com