Talk:Henry Wickham (explorer)

NPOV

[1] says that "The evildoer was an English botanist named Alexander Wickham. Tradition has it that this British gent smuggled some 70,000 seeds of hevea brasiliensis out of the country saying they were for Queen Victoria's Kew Gardens in England, and soon plantations in the British colonies in South-East Asia where producing rubber more cheaply than Brazil."

Which is correct?--203.45.119.219 04:21, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

The area Sir Henry Wickman collect the seeds, was near Vila Boim at the left bank of Tapajós River, few miles from the city of Santarém in Satate of Pará, not Manaus area

That someone can be a 'biopirate' when there is no law against it is a contradiction in terms. The expression is an empty bit of rhetoric. Brazil is a great country that consumes maize and chocolate amongst other things. The seeds for those originated in Mexico. Does that make Brazilians 'biopirates'? Of course not. 109.157.23.220 (talk) 19:52, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Talking of the Rule of Law in most of 19th Century Latin America is an anachronism: the place was a wild west. However, that does not mean that there was no policy, if only that of the rubber bosses who had banned the export of rubber trees, seedlings and seeds to preserve their effective monopoly, which had become expensive after Goodyear's discovery of vulcanisation in the early 1840s. This led the British Government to break the monopoly as described: that all parties agree means that this article is at best contentious, which becomes a breach of NPOV when one considers the use of non-neutral terminology such as "pirate" and "self-aggrandising", and the general rhetorical tone. The case must either be proven or separated from historical fact into a distinct section. As I know insufficient of the authorities to present a balanced point of view, I am unwilling to do so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.129.138.254 (talk) 06:54, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

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