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Pelargonium Patent Challenge Photographs

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The images below taken near Alice  in the Eastern Cape, South Africa are made available to the media.

Note all images are the copyright of ACB and when published we request you use the byline:
www.biosafetyafrica.org.za

01 Pelargonium sidoides growing wild 02 Pelargonium sidoides in flower 03 close up pelargonium plant at Imingcangathelo Project 04 pelargonium grown at Imingcangathelo Project
Pelargonium sidoides growing wild Pelargonium sidoides in flower Close up of Pelargonium grown at the Imingcangathelo Pelargonium Project
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05 illegal harvest 2007 06 illegally harvested Pelargonium 2007 07 Arrests Oct 2007 08 ACB reporting back to community
Illegally harvested Pelargonium found in the Gower warehouse Fresh illegally harvested Pelargonium found in the Gower warehouse Arrests connected to an illegal harvest in 2007
 ACB discussing & reporting back on the patent challenge process in 2008
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09 Community members at Pelargonium meeting 10 community members discussing Pelargonium issue 11 community members discuss the Pelargonium issue 12 Community members sing for a successful outcome
Alice community members discussing the patent challenge at a community meeting in 2008
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13 Pelargonium community meetings 14 Alice communit members 14 b community members 15 Alice area E Cape
Alice community members discussing the patent challenge at a community meeting in 2008 Community members preparing
food for a meeting		 Alice area, Eastern Cape
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16 Traditional healer near Alice twinning_smiles tMedia conference - 4 25 Jan 2010 tEPO patent hearing
Traditional healer's shop in the Alice area Mariam Mayet (Director of ACB) and Nomthunzi Api (Alice community) smile in delight - the patent on the methods for extracting active ingredients from Pelargoniums sidoides and reniforme is revoked in its entirety
 François Meienberg from the Berne Declaration and Mariam Mayet from the ACB at a media conference on 25 January 2010
 The hearing on the challenge to the patent on the extraction methods for Pelargonium begins at the EPO, 25 January 2010
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