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by Florence Wickramage Conservation of Sri Lanka's indigenous medicinal herbs to re-vitalise
the country's traditional medical system calls for high priority action.
The "Green Piracy" which includes genes of rare traditional
medicinal herbs is gaining ground. The country is at the risk of losing
some of its rare biodiversity species to outsiders who are eager to obtain
patent rights of rare medicinal herbs belonging to 'naive' Third World
countries through monetary 'baits' or if unsuccessful "by hook or by
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