[Pirateninfo] Biopiraterie in Brasilien

[Gregor Kaiser]

 28. September 2004
Rio de Janeiro - Brazilian police arrested a German scientist suspected of illegally collecting hundreds of spiders, but the accused "bio-pirate" was released because Brazil lacks laws against such crimes, police said on Monday.

The scientist, Carsten Hermann Richard Roloff, was arrested on Saturday and released on Sunday, but police confiscated hundreds of spiders contained in plastic cups and over 500 spider eggs.

Since there are no laws against bio-piracy, Roloff was arrested on suspicion of trafficking wild animals, police said. Bio-piracy involves the appropriation and patenting of native biological resources without the consent of indigenous communities.

Globo television on Sunday broadcast a police video showing Roloff sorting the spiders in a hotel room. He had arrived in Brazil on September 4.

Jorge Pontes, chief of the federal police's ecology division, said it was the country's first proven case of biopiracy.

"There must be more than 200 bio-pirates acting like him in Brazil," Pontes said. "We need an efficient mechanism to combat this type of crime."

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw1096322761965B216

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