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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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...
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...
USDA Releases Draft EIS on GE Eucalyptus; Pro GE Tree Meeting In June
By RUDDY TURNSTONE Originally published by EarthFirstJournal.org On April 20th 2017, the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Inspection Agency (APHIS) released their draft Environmental Impact statement (EIS) on ArborGen’s genetically engineered...
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...
Paper Company Threatens Ancient Boreal Forests—And Activists and Journalists
By Colin Beavan Originally published in Yes! Magazine Suppose, as a writer and climate justice activist, I want to ask you to boycott one of the world’s largest paper companies—Resolute Forest Products—because it is unsustainably cutting trees in the formerly...
Aviation Emissions Plan a Massive Offsetting Scheme
22 May: Rapidly growing emissions from tourism related aviation, and proposals to offset these through fraudulent projects are a threat to biodiversity and communities, warns the Global Forest Coalition (GFC)[1] on International Day for Biodiversity [2], which has a...
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...
WATCH: Orangutans Threatened by Deforestation for Palm Oil
Indonesia’s Orangutan populations are struggling due to illegal logging and forest burning for products like palm oil and to create mining fields. From the CGTN.com report: Jamartin Sihite is CEO of Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation and he has been an orangutan...