By Forest Peoples Programme Global Research A potential wood supplier for one of the world’s largest pulp and paper mills does not have the consent of local communities A joint investigation report released in English on May 8, 2017 by Indonesian NGOs titled...
By Anne Petermann From The Trailblazer - NiagaraSierraClub.com While many people across the US are rejecting Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)s, a new untested and not-yet-approved GMO food/tree is being promoted: the genetically engineered American...
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Bloomberg reports that landslides near the Chilean capital of Santiago killed three people over the final weekend of February. The landslides cut off water supplies to millions of homes, according to the National Emergency Office said. National Emergency Office...
Ancient Araucaria forest in Chile. Photo Petermann 2004 Members of the Steering Committee of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees from four continents will travel to Chile from March 20-30 to meet with environmental justice groups and Mapuche communities about the ongoing...
The wildfires in Chile that killed at least 11 people have been fueled by plantations of non-indigenous forests, such as eucalyptus and pine, according to biologists. “About 42% of the forest fires are in plantation forests, which are like matchboxes,” Mary Kalin...
By Mike Gaworecki Originally published at Mongabay.com More than 350,000 trees were felled between March 2010 and March 2015, the study states, despite being in areas that have been granted official protected status. At least one million logs were illegally exported...
Despite industry talking points, wood energy is not environmentally friendly. Burning wood for electricity, wood-based liquid transportation fuels, biochemicals, bioplastics, bioproducts, are all part of an envisioned “bioeconomy”. "This report confirms once again...
The researchers found 2,018 protected areas across the tropics store nearly 15 percent of all tropical forest carbon. This is because protected areas tend to have denser, older forest – thus, higher carbon stocks. Their study uncovered that, on average, nearly 0.2...
Several of the new technologies mentioned in this report are being used in the genetic engineering of trees such as the American chestnut. This article from Independent Science News gives a thorough explanation of the potential dangers and unknowns that are leading to...