Biopiracy in India

In response to Hanna Lee's post on what is being done about biopiracy, I found a great website that explains a recent triumph for the people of India. In 1994 a patent was placed the fungicidal properties of the plant called Neem. The natives of India used the Neem plant on their crops and thought of it as a form of TEK. In 1995 with the help of Dr. Vandana Shiva the opposition to this patent was filed stating that the use of this plants was public knowledge. The patent was finally revoked in 2005. While this isn't the only case of biopiracy in India, it is a major step in the right direction in curtailing this adverse way of manipulating the indigenous peoples knowledge of their ecosystem.
Kassie McCann

The website I found this on was:

http://www.indiatogether.org/2005/may/env-biopiracy.htm