Via GE Free New Zealand: Certified timber exports as well as the environment will be put at risk if Genetically Engineered Trees are included in the National Environment Standard for Plantation Forestry (NES-PF). Certification by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)...
New Internationalist recently published an article titled 10 things you should know about tree ‘offsets’. The article gives evidence against the merits of carbon credit programs and tree plantations. Biotech companies like ArborGen are working to bring genetically...
Originally published at Intercontinental Cry: Keepers of the Coast takes a close look at how the Kitasoo/Xai'Xais, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, and Wuikinuxv Nations are stewarding their marine territories along the central coast of British Columbia. The central coast of...
Via GlobalWitness.org: More than three people were killed a week in 2015 defending their land, forests and rivers against destructive industries. For our new report On Dangerous Ground we documented 185 killings across 16 countries – by far the highest annual death...
Op-Ed by Elizabeth Walsh originally published on Intercontinental Cry Even though Indigenous peoples make up just 5 percent of the world's population, their ancestral territories collectively span across 65 percent of the Earth's surface. However, just 10 percent of...
One year ago, on June 18, Pope Francis released his encyclical on the environment. This ground breaking document addressed issues including GMOs and climate change - a first for the Catholic church. On June 21 of this year, the National Catholic Reporter released the...
The Council on Hemispheric Affairs reports in the just-posted article "Indigenous Leader Killed in Land Dispute in Brazil" that: "On June 14, 2016 approximately 70 armed men approached a small group of Guaraní-Kaiowá families and, after terrorizing them by burning...
Originally published at IENEarth.org Escalating intimidation of and harassment against indigenous human rights defender Gloria Ushigua of the Sápara People and her family On 31 May 2016, five men sat outside the home of Ms Gloria Ushigua throughout the night, in what...
Original post here: https://www.mst.org.br/2016/06/13/sem-terra-interrompem-atividades-da-empresa-suzano-e-denunciam-problemas-socioambientais.html Note: Suzano's subsidiary FuturaGene won permission from the Brazilian Biosafety Commission in 2015 to produce GE...
by Elizabeth Walsh June 9, 2016 Originally published at Intercontinental Cry "Divide and conquer" is a tried and true strategy in the toolbox of colonization. In the early 1800s, President Andrew Jackson accorded individual land rights to Native Americans as a tactic...