Note: Interview includes Spanish to English translation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC_4TdZvy8I REPORTING FROM CHILE: On Thursday, March 23rd, the Campaign to STOP GE Trees delegation visited a region outside of Concepción that was hit badly by this summer's...
The following statement is also published in Spanish and Portuguese below the English Caption: A truck pumps water out of the river. Many communities in the plantations region of Chile must have water trucked in, as the plantations have depleted the water supply....
This week’s Earth Watch guest on the Sojourner Truth Radio show is Elizabeth Díaz of World Rainforest Movement, who is currently on local in Chile with a coalition united against genetically engineered trees. For the past 20 years Elizabeth has been working to support...
Photo by Orin Langelle. Lucio Cuenca from OLCA gestures to crowd and man disrupting panel. On March 22nd, World Water Day, the international delegation of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, the Landless Workers Movement (MST), CEPEDES* and OLCA** presented at the...
(Videos in English and Spanish) Lizzie Diaz of the World Rainforest Movement and Lucio Cuenca from OLCA (the Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales) discuss the impacts of industrial tree plantations and the UN FAO definition of "forests" that includes...
March 21 was the International Day of Forests, declared by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Around the world organizations denounced the FAO for their policies promoting tree plantations and wood based bioenergy. Here in Chile, Global Justice Ecology...
(Video interviews below) Santiago, Chile–Members of the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees from around the world are gathered in Chile for two weeks to investigate the impacts of industrial tree plantations and the potential future impacts of genetically...
Investigates Links Between GE Trees, Plantations and Chile's Worst Ever Fire Season Media Advisory 22 March 2017 Santiago, Chile–Members of the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees from around the world are gathered in Chile for two weeks to investigate the...
The video (in English subtitles below) is available in Dutch, French and Spanish at the bottom of the page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBDKXMqDAQo On the UN International Day of Forests, the Belgian action group Field Liberation Movement (FLM) published a new...
Originally published by Telesur.TV: Chile’s Mapuche, who make up roughly 10 percent of its population, are more likely to be killed by police than non-Mapuche people. Dozens of Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche protested police terror in Temuco on Friday, calling on law...