By Anne Petermann From The Trailblazer - NiagaraSierraClub.com While many people across the US are rejecting Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)s, a new untested and not-yet-approved GMO food/tree is being promoted: the genetically engineered American...
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Chile Wildfires: 110 Civil Society Organisations Demand End To Tree Plantation Model
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Flooding, Landslides In Chile a Result of Climate Change
Bloomberg reports that landslides near the Chilean capital of Santiago killed three people over the final weekend of February. The landslides cut off water supplies to millions of homes, according to the National Emergency Office said. National Emergency Office...
About our new Chile Blog: Campaign to STOP GE Trees To Document Impacts of Tree Plantations in Chile
Ancient Araucaria forest in Chile. Photo Petermann 2004 Members of the Steering Committee of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees from four continents will travel to Chile from March 20-30 to meet with environmental justice groups and Mapuche communities about the ongoing...
350k Trees Illegally Felled in Madagascar’s Protected Areas in 5 Year Span
By Mike Gaworecki Originally published at Mongabay.com More than 350,000 trees were felled between March 2010 and March 2015, the study states, despite being in areas that have been granted official protected status. At least one million logs were illegally exported...
BBC: Wood Energy Schemes a Disaster for Climate Change
Despite industry talking points, wood energy is not environmentally friendly. Burning wood for electricity, wood-based liquid transportation fuels, biochemicals, bioplastics, bioproducts, are all part of an envisioned “bioeconomy”. "This report confirms once again...
Official Protection Status Isn’t Stopping Deforestation in World’s Parks and Reserves
The researchers found 2,018 protected areas across the tropics store nearly 15 percent of all tropical forest carbon. This is because protected areas tend to have denser, older forest – thus, higher carbon stocks. Their study uncovered that, on average, nearly 0.2...
Alternatives to Deforestation Offered by Brazil’s River People, Indigenous Communities
By Maximo Anderson Originally published at Mongabay.com XINGU RESEX, Brazil – On a blazing recent Amazonian afternoon, with the peak of the day’s heat beating down, Lindolfo Silva de Oliveira Filho, 68 – known as “Senhor Lindolfo” – unloaded a burlap sack full of...
When Forest ‘Restoration’ Means More Tree Plantation Monocultures
From the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin: Years before governments adopted the Paris Agreement, international initiatives promising millions of hectares of reforestation and forest restoration were launched, supposedly to benefit the environment and local...
Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Promoting Tree Plantations, Reducing Forests to Tradable Carbon Stores
Via World Rainforest Movement bulletin: The 22nd annual UN climate meeting has come and gone in 2016, with governments celebrating the ratification of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, adopted at the UN climate meeting in 2015. In 1997, the US government did not...