Bioprospecting

Way before technology, doctors, hospitals and healthcare there has always been mans idea of using something to further the human race or make it better.

Shamans know hundreds and hundreds of plants that have different uses for different things. Certain animals have also been evolving and making certain defense

and protective material that helps them survive. With the materials from both plants and animals humans have been able to cure a cough, help cuts and bruises

heal, induce hallucinations, protect from the heat and help fight cancer, but all of these have been discovered buy humans and are used to benefit humans.

As technology and the whole global economic market have begun there has been a fight over these plants and animals and whether or not they can be patented

and sold to the buying public. This issue of patenting a plant or the active ingredient of the plant or the certain material from a living organism is called bioprospecting.

Bioprospecting has been widely debated for many years and is still debated on different levels everyday. It is very important because it has the ability to help out

millions and millions of people with certain illnesses and other problems that afflict mankind.

Another argument is that bioprospecting has been used to take away organisms from natural parks and it is disrupting the natural environment in

which the creators of the park worked so hard to attain. Information should not be confined to those who've been using for centuries; it should be used by

everyone it can possibly reach. An example of this would be back in 1969 the micro-fungus Tolypocladium inflatum was collected in a soil sample from Norway

and brought to Switzerland for pharmaceutical screening. If they were