This December 14 2021 sign on letter to the Forest Stewardship Council demands they reject proposals to endorse field tests of genetically engineered (GE) trees. It further demands the FSC disassociate itself from any GE tree research activities and continue to...
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New Book on American Chestnut Looks at Consequences of GE Trees
Dec 14, 2021
A new book from the University of Georgia Press, The American Chestnut, An Environmental History by Donald Edward Davis is seen as the most comprehensive treatment of the history of the American Chestnut written to date as it looks at forest ecology, anthropological...
Urgent Alert! Tell FSC – KEEP GE TREES OUT OF OUR FORESTS!
Nov 23, 2021
URGENT ALERT: TELL THE FOREST STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: GE Trees Can Never Be Sustainable! DEADLINE Thursday, Dec 2, 2021 The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), one of the world's largest certifiers of “sustainably harvested wood”, is consulting the public on policy changes...
Faces Behind the Campaign︱Denis Melican
Sep 28, 2021
Meet the faces who make up the Campaign to STOP GE Trees. Denis Melican is a member of the American Chestnut Cooperators Foundation and is also on the Campaign to STOP GE Trees North American Coordinating Committee. Here’s what he had to say about working with the...
Genetically Engineered Trees: No Solution to Climate Change
Sep 7, 2021
Genetically Engineered Trees: No Solution to Climate Change Árvores transgênicas não são solução para as mudanças climáticas Árboles transgénicos: No son solución al cambio climático Les arbres génétiquement modifiés: ne sont pas une solution aux changements...
Faces Behind the Campaign︱Lois Breault-Melican
Aug 26, 2021
Meet the faces who make up the Campaign to STOP GE Trees. Lois Breault-Melican is a member of the American Chestnut Cooperators Foundation and is also on the Campaign to STOP GE Trees North American Coordinating Committee. Here’s what she had to say about working with...
URGENT ACTION ALERT: Tell USDA NO GE trees in our forests!
Aug 17, 2021
The USDA has opened up a second public comment period to seek input for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) they plan to prepare on whether or not to approve the GE American chestnut. We need to respond in force. The pro-GE tree side is mobilizing their...
USDA’s actions on gene-edited approvals challenged in court
Aug 10, 2021
Center for Food Safety’s federal lawsuit says the exemptions for broad categories of GE crops risky. FarmProgress 6 Aug 2021 Jacqui Fatka In May 2020, the previous administration’s USDA issued its final rule to modernize agricultural biotechnology regulations. Of note...
Faces Behind the Campaign︱Steve Taylor
Aug 5, 2021
Meet the faces who make up the Campaign to STOP GE Trees. Steve Taylor is the Press Secretary of Global Justice Ecology Project and a member of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees North American Coordinating Committee. Here’s what he had to say about working with the...
Gene Drives – Engineering the Wild
Aug 4, 2021
Designed to push new genes through entire populations in the wild, gene drive technology raises serious questions about monitoring, reversibility, and human control of nature Watershed Sentinel 13 July 2021 By Lucy Sharratt So far, genetically engineered organisms...