Quartz released this drone footage showing massive deforestation by Indonesia's biggest palm oil company. Quartz - Timeline | Facebook The demand for palm oil is causing ecological disasters like floods and landslides as Indonesia's forests have been decimated by...
ALERT: Strategy Meeting to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees Taking Place in Myrtle Beach List of Experts Available for Interviews Provided Below North Myrtle Beach –Indigenous peoples, scientists, lawyers and environmental experts will gather in North Myrtle...
Below is a never-before-published interview with international social movement leader and Honduran indigenous organizer Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated on March 3, 2016. The interview was taken in Havana on September 4, 2009, two months after Honduran President...
The English translation of this article originally appeared on Intercontinental Cry. Guatemala's recent history bears the mark of a 36 year long, painful internal armed conflict, during which the State systematically violated the rights of the Mayan population....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHX2D0jKxsU Paris – An all-Indigenous flotilla of kayaks took to the waters of Paris today, followed by a press conference featuring Indigenous leaders from the Americas delivering strong messages: warnings of the worst consequences...
Why we risked arrest and spent the day in jail to STOP GE Trees By Anne Petermann, Executive Director, Global Justice Ecology Project and Coordinator, International Campaign to STOP GE Trees Yesterday morning, Ruddy Turnstone and I were arrested in the small rural...
VIDEO--Protesters arrested for speaking up for quarter of a million petition signers who signed on to reject GE Trees in 2015 Ridgeville, SC (28 September 2015) — A plan by activists to inform Andrew Baum, President and CEO of ArborGen that over 250,000 people signed...
We, local communities, peasants movements, Indigenous Peoples and civil society organizations from Africa and all over the world, call upon the United Nations, the World Forestry Congress, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Bank and states to...
One of the major driving forces for GE Tree development is their future use for bioenergy--either burned directly as biomass or digested for the production of liquid biofuels. Many argue this is the solution to our energy needs and will help replace fossil fuels. As...
Dr. Rachel Smolker, a steering committee member with the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, had a piece titled, "'Jurassic World' and the Dinosaurs at the USDA" published by Truth-Out.org this week. Smolker compares the genetically modified dinosaurs in the film to the...