Genetically Engineered Trees Conference Met with Protest in Chile FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5 June 2017 **Photos available upon request.** Concepción, Chile – People from Chile representing social movements, Indigenous organizations and...
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Vídeo: MST de Brasil solidariza con la resistencia al modelo forestal en Chile
(Entrevista en portugués con subtítulos en español) Source: No a la IUFRO en Concepción En 1974 se creó el decreto de ley 701. Con ello se han plantado más de 3 millones de hectáreas de pino y eucaliptus. Provocando migración forzada, pérdida de fuentes de agua y...
Tree Biotechnology Conference Opens in Chile
The opening of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) was held at the Sonesta Hotel in Concepción, Chile on Sunday evening 4 June 2017. It was advertised by IUFRO that there was going to be a Welcoming by the Organizing Committee followed by...
Indigenous Mapuche Vital to Protection of Chile’s Environment
Recognizing World Environment Day, teleSURtv.net published a photo essay by Carolina Lagos of Global Forest Coalition and Colective VientoSur. The essay explores life with the Mapuche community of Chile and Argentina. The Campaign to STOP GE Trees is currently in...
Los Fuegos Devastadores de Chile en 2017 – El Legado de Pinochet Continúa
Nota del fotógrafo: Una delegación internacional de la Campaña Alto a los Árboles Transgénicos llegó a Santiago, Chile, el 20 de marzo, 2017, para documentar los impactos sociales y ambientales que ha tenido la industria forestal en el país, además de sus enlaces con...
Chile’s 2017 Devastating Fires – The Legacy of Pinochet Continues
Photographer Orin Langelle, Strategic Communications Director for Global Justice Ecology Project, was part of an international delegation from the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees that arrived in Sanitago, Chile on 20 March 2017 to document the social...
LISTEN: GE Free New Zealand’s Claire Bleakley on Threat of GE Trees in Chile
Claire Bleakley. Via Facebook New Zealand's Earthwise radio show, which airs on Plains FM 96.9, recently interviewed Claire Bleakley of GE-Free New Zealand on her participation with the Campaign to STOP GE Trees visiting Chile in March. Here is an excerpt of...
WATCH: Exclusive Interview with a Militant of the MST
The following trailer and the full video are in Portuguese, with Spanish spoken translation and English subtitles. El preestreno y el video completo están en Portugués, con traducción en vivo al Español, y con subtítulos en Inglés. A pré-estreia e o vídeo completo...
Pressure to Replace Tree Plantations Burnt by Wildfires with GE Trees in Chile
By Claire Bleakley GE Free NZ I was invited by OLCA (Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales) as part of an international team working with the Campaign to Stop GE Trees. The delegation was there to highlight the IUFRO Tree biotechnology...
LISTEN: Anne Petermann on GE Trees and Plantations in Chile
Global Justice Ecology Project’s Anne Petermann was this week's Earth Watch guest on KPFK radio's Sojourner Truth show hosted by Margeret Prescod. Petermann recently traveled to Chile to help investigate the impacts tree plantations are having on native people and the...