Patenting / GI Tagging biodiverse life forms and produce still has challenges
By Malini Shankar Digital Discourse Patenting and documenting Biodiversity to enable access so as to facilitate sharing of benefits is the crux of the 17 th Conference of Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity that is currently underway in Yerevan, Armenia. Now let me break it down for you. Biodiversity, or biological diversity, is the variety of life on Earth. It includes all living organisms—plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms—and the ecosystems in which they live, interact, and depend on one another. Variety of life here refers to all life forms – trees, plants, flowers fruits, seeds, algae, soil, rocks, sub strata minerals, water, rain water, snow crystals, and ocean ecosystems, marine life … they are all life forms. and so on. In the interest of conservation it is necessary to document its occurrence and the ecosystem in which these thrive. Documenting the biological properties and characteristics make up for biodiversity registries in the Biodivers...
