Chapter 2. Ex situ natural history collections

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Nagoya Protocol apply both to genetic resources and the associated traditional knowledge conserved ex situ, i.e., when conserved outside their natural habitats or even their country of origin. Ex situ collections refer to physical resources and associated traditional knowledge embodied in material goods such as herbaria, stuffed animals or ethnographic objects preserved and accessible in the collections historically assembled in the West. E...