Protectors VS Predators. Mapping and visualizing biopiracy of traditional medicines on Twitter.

Biopiracy is a problem that refers to the appropriation of the intellectual property of traditional knowledge and biodiversity. In this research it is proposed to develop the visualization and mapping of the biopiracy of traditional medicines in the social network Twitter using digital methods. In this way, a series of graphs are presented where the territories of the actors and the medicinal plants that are mentioned in the tweets are identified. It is concluded that digital methods and data visualization allow us to analyze the problems of the phenomenon and identify certain medicinal plants related to ancestral knowledge that in the context of intangible cultural heritage may be threatened.