1. In addition to traditional medicine with medical value, it plays an important role in the country's economic development, but "biopiracy" have had a rather big impact on the traditional medicine.

2. And although concerns about biopiracy are widespread in Brazil, a member of the congressional committee investigating it says they have not found evidence for even a single case.

3. Developing countries' concern about biopiracy is rational and in the long term it can only be solved by developing countries building their own capacity to carry out barcoding, says Schindel.

4. What counts as biopiracy?

5. The fight against biopiracy must embrace both legitimate science and social justice if biodiversity itself is not to suffer.

6. It aims to legitimise traditional knowledge and protect it from biopiracy and patent claims by providing information to patent offices for cross-checking of new applications.

7. Scientists working in tropical areas outside Brazil say they too are experiencing difficulties owing to crackdowns on potential biopiracy.

8. The conference set out a roadmap for negotiations on access and benefit sharing (ABS) of genetic resources to help curb biopiracy.

9. Devinder Sharma, chair of the Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security in New Delhi,(/biopiracy.html) told SciDev.Net that "TKDL facilitates biopiracy.

10. For example, some South American regions have tried legislating against biopiracy but have struggled to implement laws at a national or international level (see Peruvian region outlaws biopiracy).