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...
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...
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...
The following statement was issued on 24 November 2005 in Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil at an international meeting on building support for local communities against large-scale tree plantations and GMO trees. This meeting was co-sponsored by World Rainforest...
https://www.facebook.com/stopgetrees/videos/737433059749492/ The Canadian Biotechnology Network (CBAN) maintains a section on the developments surrounding genetically engineered apples that are making their debut in markets around the US this year. The GM apple...
By John C. Cannon Originally published at MongaBay.com Forest covers at least 112 million hectares of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Studies from 2013 show that subsistence agriculture and the need for firewood threaten DRC’s forests, and new investments in...
Provided by our partners at GE Free NZ: The government’s Resource Legislation Amendment Bill (RLA) threatens changes to environmental legislation. The manipulations by Nick Smith pave the way for destruction of New Zealand’s economic advantage and further loss of...
By Forest Peoples Programme Global Research A potential wood supplier for one of the world’s largest pulp and paper mills does not have the consent of local communities A joint investigation report released in English on May 8, 2017 by Indonesian NGOs titled...