USDA’s Genetically Engineered Tree Public Comment Period Launched! Deadline 26 January 2023 YOU helped us get the comment period extended! We now have the opportunity to submit comments until 26 January 2023! Update (May 2023): Thank you for submitting comments!...
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131 Groups Call on FSC to Uphold GE Trees Prohibition
Nov 17, 2022
131 environmental and social justice groups from 34 countries, including 10 FSC members, are calling on FSC to continue prohibiting the use of genetically engineered trees and to refrain from engaging with field experiments. Click here for the full list of signatories...
GE Trees Will Never Be Sustainable
Oct 13, 2022
Trading in Forest Stewardship? 10 October 2022 Source: Counterpunch by Lucy Sharratt Forest Stewardship Council prepares to facilitate the global release of GE trees The release of genetically engineered (GE or genetically modified) trees is closer than it has ever...
93 Groups Call on FSC to Uphold GE Trees Prohibition
Oct 7, 2022
More than 90 environmental and social justice groups from 28 countries are calling on the Fores Stewardship Council to continue prohibiting the use of genetically engineered trees and to refrain from engaging with field experiments. Please see the full list of...
Experts Sound Alarm Over ‘Growing Threat’ of Genetically Engineered Trees
Sep 29, 2022
"Development of genetically engineered trees is advancing despite the serious risks to our forests and continued opposition around the world," said one advocate. Source: Common Dreams, September 28, 2022 A report published Wednesday exposes the "growing threat" of...
Sign on to Tell the FSC NO to Genetically Engineered Trees!
Aug 19, 2022
For more than twenty years, a core policy of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has been a prohibition on the commercial use of genetically engineered (GE or genetically modified) trees in its certification program – but this important ban is under threat. FSC’s ban...
O FSC deve manter a proibição de árvores transgênicas
Aug 19, 2022
Por mais de vinte anos, uma política fundamental do Conselho de Manejo Florestal tem sido a proibição do uso comercial de árvores geneticamente modificadas em seu programa de certificação – mas esta importante proibição está ameaçada. A proibição de árvores GM pelo...
El FSC debe mantener la prohibición contra los árboles transgénicos
Aug 19, 2022
Durante más de veinte años, una de las políticas fundamentales del Consejo de Administración Forestal (más conocido por sus siglas en inglés, FSC) ha sido la prohibición del uso comercial de árboles genéticamente modificados en su programa de certificación, pero esta...
Guest column: Restoring Brunswick’s American chestnut trees
Aug 8, 2022
Guest column: Restoring Brunswick’s American chestnut trees Portland Press Herald 4 Aug 2022 By Jim St. Pierre and Dennis Wilson For generations, American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata) fed people and wildlife throughout eastern North America. Up to 4 billion...
A Rude Awakening on KPFA Interviews Author Donald Edward Davis
Jul 5, 2022
A Rude Awakening on KPFA Interview Author Donald Edward Davis Pacifica Radio 24 June 2022 Sabrina Jacobs, host of A Rude Awakening on KPFA spoke with Dr. Donald Edward Davis, author of The American Chestnut: An Environmental History. His exhaustive book explores how...