Hawaii LRB Study : Bioprospecting: Issues And Policy

The Hawaii Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) has published Report 1, 2006 requested by the 2005 Hawaii Legislature. This report was undertaken in response to House Concurrent Resolution No. 146, H.D. 1. The Bureau has been requested to "conduct a study on the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from research, indigenous knowledge, intellectual property, or application of biological resources that are public natural resources held in trust by the State for the benefit of the people."

Bioprospecting: Issues And Policy Considerations
(available in pdf, 17MB, from LRB)

Fact Sheet (available in html)