Bioprospecting in the developing world

During the past ten years, species-rich nations in the developing world hav e sought to capitalize on their 'biological patrimony' through a variety of business relationships with multinational corporations as a means of under writing their conservation efforts. Initially lauded, these relationships h ave generated more rhetoric than revenues to date. The ramifications of the se results on bioprospecting are discussed along with the foreseeable chang es in models of collaboration.