Originalmente publicado por Resumen.cl: [resumen.cl Frente a los pasados incendios que agudizaron la crisis derivada del negocio forestal, diversas organizaciones sociales están llamando a una jornada de movilización que pretende visibilizar los impactos sociales y...
Genetically Engineered Trees Conference Met with Protest in Chile FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5 June 2017 **Photos available upon request.** Concepción, Chile – People from Chile representing social movements, Indigenous organizations and...
The opening of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) was held at the Sonesta Hotel in Concepción, Chile on Sunday evening 4 June 2017. It was advertised by IUFRO that there was going to be a Welcoming by the Organizing Committee followed by...
By RUDDY TURNSTONE Originally published by EarthFirstJournal.org On April 20th 2017, the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Inspection Agency (APHIS) released their draft Environmental Impact statement (EIS) on ArborGen’s genetically engineered...
Photographer Orin Langelle, Strategic Communications Director for Global Justice Ecology Project, was part of an international delegation from the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees that arrived in Sanitago, Chile on 20 March 2017 to document the social...
Claire Bleakley. Via Facebook New Zealand's Earthwise radio show, which airs on Plains FM 96.9, recently interviewed Claire Bleakley of GE-Free New Zealand on her participation with the Campaign to STOP GE Trees visiting Chile in March. Here is an excerpt of...
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...
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...
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...