Whangarei, Far North, and Auckland communities are delighted that the Maori Party have successfully blocked the Government’s attempt to pass controversial changes to the RMA that the Minister Nick Smith wanted to use to destroy valuable GE Free zones. Northland’s and...
Multinational companies are increasingly looking to Africa to expand production of in-demand commodity crops such as soy and oil palm. A first-of-its-kind study highlights the real and potential impacts on the continent’s valuable tropical forests. BY ROB...
The European Parliament voted in favour of a report calling on the EU to stop funding and contributing to deforestation. The report recognizes the driving forces behind deforestation, in particular agricultural expansion and the production of palm oil. There were 640...
Via GEFreeNZ.org: It is crunch time for GM Free regions this week, as a critical stage of the Resource Legislation Amendment Bill looms. The Bill is set to enter the committee stages - the last opportunity to make changes to the Bill. It is there that the Maori...
As the campaign to Stop GE Trees returns from Chile this week, this Op-Ed by Ariel Dorfman for the New York Times is particularly timely and sobering. SANTIAGO, Chile — Here in Chile, in the far south of the Southern Hemisphere, it has been the summer of our...
The Campaign to Stop GE Trees (CSGET) current investigation into tree plantations and genetically engineered trees in Chile has received extensive coverage in Latin American media. Please see a list below of Chilean and other media, including TV, radio, print and...
In Portuguese. Automated translation to English below. Organizações pedem a FAO que reveja sua definição de florestas Nós organizações da Sociedade Civil, abaixo assinadas, e Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra, MST, reunidas em Santiago do Chile para...
REPORTING FROM CHILE: For people living in the US, the battle at Standing Rock popularized a new term for those taking action to defend the land: Water protectors. Led by Indigenous women, land defenders fighting to stop the Dakota Access pipeline described themselves...
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....