biopiraten.
/bʌɪə(ʊ)ˈpʌɪrət/, U.S. /baɪoʊˈpaɪrət/ A person who or organization which engages in biopiracy.
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1995 Miami Herald 1 Jan. (Sunday Mag.) 13/2 Scientists are prospecting in equatorial jungles, acting as ‘bio-pirates’, probing the bodies of Indians for molecular secrets that could bring vast profits.
2001 M. A. L. Miller in D. Stevis & V. J. Assetto Internat. Polit. Econ. of Environment vi. 128 Knowledge..as a commodity available for expropriation by corporate biopirates.
2007 Wired Nov. 114/2 To avoid getting steamrollered by developers, ranchers, loggers, miners, oilmen, and biopirates, tribes across the Amazon Basin have begun acquiring high tech tools.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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