GE American Chestnut
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White paper details issues & concerns of the GE American Chestnut
Download the major white paper Biotechnology For Forest Health? The Test Case of the Genetically Engineered American Chestnut.
You can also read the Executive Summary
In addition to The Campaign to STOP GE Trees, Biofuelwatch and Global Justice Ecology Project, the network of groups collaborating to prevent the regulatory approval of GE trees in North America includes Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Indigenous Environmental Network, Rural Coalition and Shawnee Forest Defense.
For more information or to help stop the release of GE trees into the environment, please contact theresa2@globaljusticeecology.org.
News & Analysis
Telepress Conference on the Genetically Engineered American Chestnut Tree
“Who is Behind the Effort to Legalize Genetically Engineered American Chestnut Trees and Why it Matters” This telepresser was held on May 14, 2019 by the Campaign to STOP GE Trees. It exposes who is funding the research, and discusses the findings of a new White...
NEW: Risks of GE American Chestnut in Independent Science News
The GE American Chestnut – Restoration of a Beloved Species or Trojan Horse for Tree Biotechnology? Independent Science News, 11 June 2019: by Rachel Smolker, Ph.D. (Biofuelwatch) and Anne Petermann (Global Justice Ecology Project) About a century ago the American...
Sign the petition! Stop the Unregulated Release of GE Trees into Wild Forests
Sign on by clicking here or go to form below Researchers are developing a genetically engineered (GE) American chestnut tree and hope to win government approval to plant it throughout the forests of the Eastern US where the trees could spread their GE pollen and seeds...
MEDIA ALERT- May 14 Telepress Conf; Who is behind push for GE chestnut trees & why it matters
MEDIA ALERT - 13 May 2019 CONTACT: +1.314.210.1322; steve@globaljusticeecology.org WEBINAR DETAILS FOR TUESDAY, May 14th TELEPRESS CONFERENCE “Who is Behind the Effort to Legalize Genetically Engineered American Chestnut Trees and Why it Matters” To access the...
Major New White Paper on GE American Chestnut Released
Biotechnology for Forest Health? The Test Case of the Genetically Engineered American Chestnut Download the 48 page white paper here: biotechnology-for-forest-health-test-case-american-chestnut-report-WEB Find the 2-page Executive Summary here:...
Organic Insider Takes on GE American Chestnut Trees
How the Ag-Biotech Industry is Attempting to Manipulate Public Opinion with Unproven Genetically-Engineered Chestnut Trees Source: Organic Insider 8 May 2019 In the 1800s, the American chestnut tree was the predominant species in the Eastern U.S. before blight wiped...
14 May 2019 GE American Chestnut Telepresser Background Information
Telepress Conference Media Alert “Who is Behind the Effort to Legalize Genetically Engineered American Chestnut Trees and Why it Matters” Damning new White Paper on GE American chestnut trees, Resignation of American Chestnut Foundation Board members, response from...
Dr. Rachel Smolker debates risks of deregulating GE American chestnut trees on NPR’s On Point Program
How GMOs Might Save The American Chestnut Tree This program aired 29 April 2019 and was hosted Meghna Chakrabarti. The program is heavily tipped in favor of the two men who speak in favor of using genetically engineering to make American chestnut trees blight...
GE American chestnuts vs. Indigenous Peoples’ Sovereignty
Note: The assertion that the American chestnut could be restored using GE technologies is not at all certain. Tests have only been run for 12 or so years, while AC trees can live for over 200 years. How the engineered trait will behave in the future under various...
Genetically Engineered American Chestnut White Paper Executive Summary
Biotechnology for Forest Health: The Test Case of the Genetically Engineered American Chestnut Executive Summary The American chestnut, once a dominant species in eastern North American forests, was decimated in the first half of the 20th century by a fungal blight...
KPFK Earth Minute on Chestnut Advocates Resigning Over GE Trees
Earth Minute 4/17/19, Sojourner Truth show, KPFK Pacifica Radio, Los Angeles Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project, discusses the decision by two Board members of the American Chestnut Foundation to resign due to the the foundation's...
Analysis of Survey on Public Acceptance of Forest Health Biotechnologies
Analysis of the 2015 survey: FOREST HEALTH BIOTECHNOLOGIES: WHAT ARE THE DRIVERS OF PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE Prepared By Adam Koranyi, CUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus, 10/3/2018 Note: The following is an analysis of the results from a 2015 survey...
Release: American Chestnut Foundation Board Members Resign Over GE Chestnut
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 28, 2019 Regional Board members of The American Chestnut Foundation Resign In Protest Against Genetically Engineered American Chestnut Trees (Full resignation letter can be found below) Contact: Steve Taylor...
Release: NAS Report Casts Doubt on Government Ability to Regulate Genetically Engineered Trees
Researchers Want to Release Unproven GE American Chestnut Trees in Wild Forests January 30, 2019 For Immediate Release New York–In its report, Forest Health and Biotechnology ; Possibilities and Considerations the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and...
NAS Warns US Regulations Unprepared for GE Trees
NAS Warns US Regulations Unprepared for GE Trees Four members of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees) testified before the NAS about the social and ecological dangers of releasing GE trees into wild forests in 2018. From Nature: Transgenic trees face rocky path from farm to...
Op-Ed in The Hill: Forests are in crisis but biotechnology is not the solution
Global Justice Ecology Project’s Anne Petermann, Rachel Smolker and Ruddy Turnstone (as Rachel Kijewski) authored an op-ed published by The Hill on 28 March on the topic of genetically engineered trees. The authors were also presenters on 27 March for a National...