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Breaking: Chile Cancels UN Climate COP Amidst Massive Popular Uprising
Chile was to be the perfect host for the UN Climate COP which has as its focus the expansion and further legitimization of market-based policies based on the neoliberal commodification of the earth, an expansion of industrial tree plantations as a “natural climate...
Una campaña global evidencia el rechazo mundial a los árboles transgénicos mientras se celebra la Conferencia Internacional de Biotecnología de los Árboles en Carolina del Norte
Para difusión inmediata 20 de Junio de 2019 Una campaña global evidencia el rechazo mundial a los árboles transgénicos mientras se celebra la Conferencia Internacional de Biotecnología de los Árboles en Carolina del Norte Los...
Research Determines Reasons for Massive Fires in South-Central Chile
Research determines reasons for massive fires in south-central Chile The Campaign to STOP GE Trees and Global Justice Ecology Project has worked to expose the dangers of monoculture tree plantations in Chile. See our Chile Blog here. PHYS.ORG: A Montana State...
Chile: Mega Forest Fires, Corporate Crime and Impunity
Chile: Mega Forest Fires, Corporate Crime and Impunity Tree plantation companies have enormous power and impunity in Chile. The fires of 2017 demonstrated the collusion between these companies and public officials to prevent investigations and criminalize the...
What’s Driving Tree Plantation Expansion in Latin America, Africa and Asia?
Originally published by World Rainforest Movement Years before governments adopted the Paris Agreement, international initiatives promising millions of hectares of reforestation and forest restoration were launched, supposedly to benefit the environment and...
Transgenic Trees are a Threat to Forests
WATCH: Pulp and Paper Industry a Culprit in Spread of Chilean Wildfires https://youtu.be/4HqNcUMdnwA Originally published in Spanish by Puntofinal.cl. Translated into English through Google Translate. Resistance to the forest business grows in several points of...
Monoculture Eucalyptus Plantations Caused Deadly Wildfires
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...
Fire in Portugal Raises Debate on ‘Gasoline Tree’ Eucalyptus Plantations
BBC Brazil published an article today, titled "Incêndio em Portugal gera debate sobre o eucalipto, um dos motores econômicos do Brasil," that translates to "Fire in Portugal Raises Debate on Eucalyptus, One of the Economic Engines of Brazil" in English. According to...
Portugal’s Wildfires: A Result of the Timber Industry
Note/Nota: Em português depois do inglês / En español, después de inglés y portugués Wildfires in Portugal have been called “the worst such disaster in recent history.” Dozens of people burnt to death in their cars while trying to escape the inferno. But this...
Chile’s Forests are on Fire: Who is Responsible?
Originally published by Global Forest Coalition: It is the summer of 2017. In Chile more than 600,000 hectares [1] of scrubland, plantation forests, agricultural land, native forests and homes have been devastated in what is thought to be the worst episode of forest...
Declaração da Campanha para Deter as Árvores Transgênicas (Em Português)
After IUFRO: Campaign Denounces Violence of Timber Industry in English/Declaración de la Campaña Internacional Alto a los Arboles Transgénicos en Espanol A Campanha internacional para Deter as Árvores Transgênicas [1] rejeita a declaração pública feita em 8 de...
After IUFRO: Campaign Denounces Violence of Timber Industry (Declaración de la Campaña Internacional Alto a los Arboles Transgénicos)
"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)...