By Danielle DeLuca, Cultural Survival Thirteen Maya villagers will be standing trial in Belize on March 30th, 2016, under fabricated charges. Like many Indigenous leaders fighting to protect their lands, they are being criminalized for these actions, and may face...
On International Women's Day (March 8), 5,000 women from the MST (Landless Movement) entered a nursery of Araupel, in Paraná Brasil, and destroyed seedlings of pinus and eucalyptus trees. It was a protest against the expansion of plantations in their region, the green...
Flickr.com Monsanto's glyphosate is now most heavily used weed-killer in history, according to a new study. A paper published Feb. 2, 2016 in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Sciences Europe reports that 18.9 billion pounds (8.6 billion kilograms) of glyphosate...
Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PHOTOS AVAILABLE New York (2 April 2015) – Concerned citizens demonstrated at Brazilian consulates and embassies located around the world this week, as part of a second week of global protests...
Photos Below! Calling for Brazil to reject GE trees, more than forty participants from the Forest Movement Europe and the global gathering of the Environmental Paper Network protested at the Brazilian Embassy in Brussels today. Countries represented included Sweden,...
Here are reports from all the amazing protests happening all over the world (with more to come!!). Show your solidarity with those fighting GE trees in Brazil! Sign the petition and tell the Brazilian Biosafety Commission to REJECT GE trees. Forward it to your friends...
A recent letter signed by 78 scientists, warns the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about the environmental impacts of burning trees for electricity, including rapid acceleration of deforestation globally, and increases in CO2 emissions. While not...
URGENT: US Greenlights First GE Forest Tree for Commercialization In an unprecedented and alarming move, the US Department of Agriculture has given GE tree company ArborGen permission to pursue commercial production of a genetically engineered (GE) loblolly pine with...
GE Trees: Another Form of Colonization 13 October 2014 - From the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Campaign to STOP GE Trees Qualla Boundary, North Carolina--In the shadow of Columbus Day and the legacy of colonization in the Americas, the Indigenous...