Environmental management and the implications to the plant varieties protection in Bangka Belitung Islands

Abstract

Plant varieties protection is one of intellectual property rights branches providing protection to breeders, a people who carries out research and testing or the activity of discovering and developing a plant variety to produce new variety. In addition, it also known local varieties, namely varieties that already exist and are cultivated from generation to generation by farmers, and belong to the community. Varieties cannot be protected if one of them on the contrary to the environmental sustainability. On the other hand, the environment is one of the problems faced by the people of Bangka Belitung Islands until now, especially when it is associated with mining activities. This empirical juridical research method analyzes how the impact of environmental protection and management efforts towards the efforts to protect plant varieties in the Bangka Belitung Islands. The result of the research indicates that the damaged environment due to massive mining has implications to the protection of plant varieties in this area. The clearing of land plots and housing that has been happening lately also has implications, either cleared or built on land that was originally primary forest or built on land that was originally a plantation consisting of local varieties.