The United Nations Environmental Program expedited it. States' governments ratified it.
Corporations profit from it.
Fourth World nations, their cultures and their very existence are being destroyed by it. It is the Convention on Biodiversity initialed in 1992 and ratified by virtually all of the world's states' governments. What began in the 1970s as a major effort by people of goodwill to establish international protections for the world's diverse biological and other life giving beings has become the profit-driven juggernaut led by corporations and developers to commercialize wild forests, plants, animals and indigenous peoples. Despite its convoluted words suggesting otherwise, the Convention on Biodiversity has the sole purpose of dividing and commercializing Fourth World nations. There is an alternative to this headlong rush to develop wild plants into new commercial pharmaceuticals.