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...
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...
Recognizing World Environment Day, teleSURtv.net published a photo essay by Carolina Lagos of Global Forest Coalition and Colective VientoSur. The essay explores life with the Mapuche community of Chile and Argentina. The Campaign to STOP GE Trees is currently in...
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...
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 Colin Beavan Originally published in Yes! Magazine Suppose, as a writer and climate justice activist, I want to ask you to boycott one of the world’s largest paper companies—Resolute Forest Products—because it is unsustainably cutting trees in the formerly...
22 May: Rapidly growing emissions from tourism related aviation, and proposals to offset these through fraudulent projects are a threat to biodiversity and communities, warns the Global Forest Coalition (GFC)[1] on International Day for Biodiversity [2], which has a...
Indonesia’s Orangutan populations are struggling due to illegal logging and forest burning for products like palm oil and to create mining fields. From the CGTN.com report: Jamartin Sihite is CEO of Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation and he has been an orangutan...
Al Jazeera English recently released this short documentary, Death by a Thousand Cuts, which centers around the murder of Eligio Eloy Vargas, aka "Melaneo", a park ranger in a Dominican National Park who was found brutally murdered with a machete....
New report reveals connections between the snack food giant and major importers of palm oil connected to environmental and social scandal San Francisco, CA - A new report released today by Rainforest Action Network (RAN), titled “Profits over People and the Planet,...