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Bio-what? Bioprospecting, also known as biodiversity prospecting, refers to research activity aimed at identifying and obtaining chemical substances which can be found in nature and developed into commercially valuable products.

When we think of the Arctic, the first images we summon up in our minds are usually of glaciers and polar bears. And that’s quite correct, as the Arctic is, for the most part, covered with glaciers or ice sheets and inhabited by the world’s largest land predator. But there’s more to the Arctic than that. Found in the area is also, or maybe most of all, the Arctic tundra, which is the northernmost type of vegetation in the world.