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June 2, 2024

Patents based on traditional knowledge are often ‘biopiracy’. A new international treaty will finally combat this

Miri (Margaret) Raven, UNSW ; Alana Gall, Southern Cross University; Bibi Barba, Indigenous Knowledge, and Daniel Robinson, UNSW

Can you patent something Indigenous peoples already know about? Too often, the answer is yes - but moves are afoot to stop it.

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December 13, 2022

Without Indigenous leadership, attempts to stop the tide of destruction against nature will fail

Zsofia Korosy, UNSW ; Anthony Burke, UNSW ; Daniel Robinson, UNSW ; Katie Moon, UNSW ; Michelle Lim, Singapore Management University, and Miri (Margaret) Raven, UNSW

Almost 200 countries are reckoning with the world’s extraordinary loss of the variety of life at the COP15 nature summit in Canada. Here’s why Indigenous involvement is crucial.

September 16, 2020

Australia’s plants and animals have long been used without Indigenous consent. Now Queensland has taken a stand

David Jefferson, The University of Queensland; Daniel Robinson, UNSW ; David Claudie, Indigenous Knowledge; Jocelyn Bosse, The University of Queensland, and Miri (Margaret) Raven, UNSW

Our medicine, cosmetics and other everyday products contain compounds taken from nature. But Traditional Owners may not have given permission for the materials or their knowledge to be used.

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