Indigenous Peoples, Beware Of Biopirates – OpEd

Beware! There are pirates on the loose. Not on the seas but on land. 

They are not after gold, war booty or kegs of rum. They are after life. 

These pirates are swashbuckling silently but recklessly in Asia with incalculable stakes for humankind. One where a handful of genomic companies and their pharmaceutical partners...