Al Jazeera English recently released this short documentary, Death by a Thousand Cuts, which centers around the murder of Eligio Eloy Vargas, aka "Melaneo", a park ranger in a Dominican National Park who was found brutally murdered with a machete....
New report reveals connections between the snack food giant and major importers of palm oil connected to environmental and social scandal San Francisco, CA - A new report released today by Rainforest Action Network (RAN), titled “Profits over People and the Planet,...
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...
The Tapajós River Basin lies at the heart of the Amazon, and at the heart of an exploding controversy: whether to build 40+ large dams, a railway, and highways, turning the Basin into a vast industrialized commodities export corridor; or to curb this development...
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...
Last month, Biofuelwatch joined a delegation in Chile coordinated by the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered (GE) Trees to investigate the impacts of industrial tree plantations and share information about the threats posed by GE trees. Given growing calls from...
Via Grassroots International: TIAA (formerly TIAA-CREF), one of the largest investment firms in the U.S., has over several hundred million dollars invested in land grabbing and deforestation that has resulted in human rights violations around the world. TIAA manages...
Asia’s rapid economic growth and industrialization are coming at an extremely high price for local communities, their environments and economies. Across the region, ‘development’ is characterized by large-scale investment, at the heart of which are the control and...
(In Portuguese with English Subtitles) The Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees recently organized an international delegation to Chile to investigate the impacts of industrial timber plantations on communities, forests and water. Three of the delegation...
Global Justice Ecology Project’s Anne Petermann recently traveled to Chile to help investigate the impacts tree plantations are having on native people and the potential impacts of genetically engineered trees in that region on the Sojourner Truth Radio Show for this...