Global Justice Ecology Project received this video from a Brazilian activist on the ground there. The video comes from the Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APIB). It is a strong critique against Brazil's newly inaugurated right wing fascist...
Eucalyptus Plantations, Toilet Paper Companies Devastate Brazilian Town The devastating social and ecological impacts of plantations, especially eucalyptus are well documented and vast. Freeze tolerant genetically engineered eucalyptus trees could allow eucalyptus...
Featured photo: FSC certified. Courtesy Timberwatch website Note: Wally Menne was a great ally in the fight to stop genetically engineered trees from the early days. I attended the Durban Group for Climate Justice founding meeting as a representative of the GE trees...
The Campaign to STOP GE Trees coordinated with the World Rainforest Movement to speak out against the social and ecological dangers associated with tree plantations. Join us and share the following stories and videos online to help spread this important message. ...
The short videos were produced by World Rainforest Movement for the 2017 International Day of Action Against Monoculture Tree Plantations. Each addresses a different problem.
Photos and commentary by Anne Petermann, Executive Director, Global Justice Ecology Project (Exception: the last two photos are by GJEP Co-Director/Strategist Orin Langelle) In June 2011 the Tree Biotechnology Conference hosted by the International Union of Forest...
We, leaders of groups of women affected by the expansion of industrial monoculture plantations, particularly oil palm plantations, coming from all regions in Sierra Leone and different countries from West and Central Africa; We, national and international...
The wildfire in Portugal that killed 61 people earlier this month were caused by eucalyptus tree plantations according to critics like Catarina Martins the leader of the Left Bloc, a progressive political party in Portugal. “After what happened, things have to...
In the wake of the tragic eucalyptus fires in Portugal that killed more than 60 people and devastating eucalyptus fires in Chile in January, we are asking organizations to help keep a similar disaster from happening in the US by stopping the legalization of GE...
"Get the forestry corporations out of UdeC" & "Ciao IUFRO" Photo: Keith Brunner Traducción al Español después de Inglés The international Campaign to Stop Genetically Engineered (GE) Trees [1] rejects a public declaration by the University of Concepción's (UdeC)...