OBSERVATION 1: INHERENCY
A. Americans think “bioprospecting” is done by hippie scientists in the Amazon so there has
been almost no discussion of domestic regulation.
< John R. Adair, The Bioprospecting Question: Should the United States Charge Biotechnology
Companies for the Commercial Use of Public Wild Genetic Resources, 24 ECOLOGY L.Q.
(1997). Available at: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/elq/vol24/iss1/3 >jd
[This new activity raise…. share of the proceeds.]
B. Agencies struggling with bioprospecting concerns demonstrate a need for Congressional
action.
< Andrea Aseff, First Federal Prohibition on Bioprospecting within a Place of Protection: Time to
Spur the Legislative Dialogue, Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy
22:189-218 (2011). Available at http://www.colorado.edu/law/sites/default/files/Vol.22.1.pdf >jd
[In 2009, the U.S. Fish…. possibly irreversible, manner.]
PLAN: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase restrictions on
bioprospecting by: (1) establishing a clear statutory scheme governing bioprospecting on federal
lands and (2) preventing bioprospecting in national parks, national monuments, wilderness
areas, and other sensitive or highly protected areas.
OBSERVATION 2: SOLVENCY
A. We need a uniform statutory scheme to preserve public land resources.
< Andrea Aseff, First Federal Prohibition on Bioprospecting within a Place of Protection: Time to
Spur the Legislative Dialogue, Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy
22:189-218 (2011). Available at http://www.colorado.edu/law/sites/default/files/Vol.22.1.pdf >jd
[There are many compromises….or highly protected areas.]
B. Resolving the “bioprospecting question” for federal lands is net-beneficial domestically and
models to developing countries.
< John R. Adair, The Bioprospecting Question: Should the United States Charge Biotechnology
Companies for the Commercial Use of Public Wild Genetic Resources, 24 ECOLOGY L.Q.
(1997). Available at: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/elq/vol24/iss1/3 >jd
[The commentators are correct…. eclipse its frailties.]
OBSERVATION 3: BIODIVERSITY
A. The failure to create a legal regime for bioprospecting hurts biodiversity and, more
importantly hurts any future effort to protect biodiversity.
< Andrea Aseff, First Federal Prohibition on Bioprospecting within a Place of Protection: Time to
Spur the Legislative Dialogue, Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy
22:189-218 (2011). Available at http://www.colorado.edu/law/sites/default/files/Vol.22.1.pdf >jd
[Bioprospecting is a major….effect on future goals.]
B. Unregulated bioprospecting threatens biodiversity and human health; risks ecosystem
collapse.
< Andrea Aseff, First Federal Prohibition on Bioprospecting within a Place of Protection: Time to
Spur the Legislative Dialogue, Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy
22:189-218 (2011). Available at http://www.colorado.edu/law/sites/default/files/Vol.22.1.pdf >jd
[Public health and environmental….consequentially, public health.]
C. Biodiversity loss from unregulated bioprospecting threatens any future bioprospecting or
research gains.
< Andrea Aseff, First Federal Prohibition on Bioprospecting within a Place of Protection: Time to
Spur the Legislative Dialogue, Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy
22:189-218 (2011). Available at http://www.colorado.edu/law/sites/default/files/Vol.22.1.pdf >jd
[On the other hand, preservation…..ecological, anthropogenic harms.]
OBSERVATION 4: INTERNATIONAL MODELING
A. Ambiguity in the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity prevents indigenous groups from
benefiting from local bioprospecting.
< Katy Moran, Steven R. King & Thomas J. Carlson, Biodiversity Prospecting: Lessons and
Prospects, ANNU. REV. ANTHROPOL. 2001. 30:505–26. Available at
http://www.cieer.org/pdf/505.pdf >jd
[What has not yet….CBD was created to resolve]
B. U.S. domestic law would model to domestic and foreign companies, developing countries,
and the international legal community.
< John R. Adair, The Bioprospecting Question: Should the United States Charge Biotechnology
Companies for the Commercial Use of Public Wild Genetic Resources, 24 ECOLOGY L.Q.
(1997). Available at: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/elq/vol24/iss1/3 >jd
[Finally, a compensation-seeking…. international view on bioprospecting.]