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...
This poster and media coverage in Spanish resulted from a presentation by the delegation of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees at the University of Chile in Concepcíon that was titled “GE Trees: The New Evil Impulse of the Forestry Industry” Below is the poster from the...
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...
By Javier Karmy Bolton Originally published by Elciudadano.cl in Spanish. See automated English translation at bottom of page. La industria forestal en Chile ha estado impulsando la generación de árboles genéticamente modificados para obtener mayor...
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...
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....
This week’s Earth Watch guest on the Sojourner Truth Radio show is Elizabeth Díaz of World Rainforest Movement, who is currently on local in Chile with a coalition united against genetically engineered trees. For the past 20 years Elizabeth has been working to support...
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...
(Videos in English and Spanish) Lizzie Diaz of the World Rainforest Movement and Lucio Cuenca from OLCA (the Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales) discuss the impacts of industrial tree plantations and the UN FAO definition of "forests" that includes...