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...
March 21 was the International Day of Forests, declared by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Around the world organizations denounced the FAO for their policies promoting tree plantations and wood based bioenergy. Here in Chile, Global Justice Ecology...
(Video interviews below) Santiago, Chile–Members of the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees from around the world are gathered in Chile for two weeks to investigate the impacts of industrial tree plantations and the potential future impacts of genetically...
Investigates Links Between GE Trees, Plantations and Chile's Worst Ever Fire Season Media Advisory 22 March 2017 Santiago, Chile–Members of the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees from around the world are gathered in Chile for two weeks to investigate the...
The video (in English subtitles below) is available in Dutch, French and Spanish at the bottom of the page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBDKXMqDAQo On the UN International Day of Forests, the Belgian action group Field Liberation Movement (FLM) published a new...
The following statement was issued on 24 November 2005 in Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil at an international meeting on building support for local communities against large-scale tree plantations and GMO trees. This meeting was co-sponsored by World Rainforest...
By John C. Cannon Originally published at MongaBay.com Forest covers at least 112 million hectares of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Studies from 2013 show that subsistence agriculture and the need for firewood threaten DRC’s forests, and new investments in...