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 … [Read more...]
Fight Against GE Eucalyptus in US Gets Major Media Coverage
Major news outlets are reporting on the news that over 250,000 signatures have been collected telling the USDA to not approve genetically engineered eucalyptus trees. RT.com interviewed Campaign to … [Read more...]
Portugal’s Wildfires: A Result of the Timber Industry
June 22, 2017: For Immediate Release From The Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees Wildfires in Portugal have been called “the worst such disaster in recent history.” Dozens of people … [Read more...]
Paper Company Threatens Ancient Boreal Forests—And Activists and Journalists
By Colin Beavan Originally published in Yes! Magazine Suppose, as a writer and climate justice activist, I want to ask you to boycott one of the world’s largest paper companies—Resolute Forest … [Read more...]
Pressure to Replace Tree Plantations Burnt by Wildfires with GE Trees in Chile
By Claire Bleakley GE Free NZ I was invited by OLCA (Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales) as part of an international team working with the Campaign to Stop GE … [Read more...]
Video: MST Fight to Take Back Land From Tree Plantations & Free Political Prisoners in Brazil
(In Portuguese with English Subtitles) The Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees recently organized an international delegation to Chile to investigate the impacts of industrial timber … [Read more...]
EU Must Stop Palm Oil Deforestation, says European Parliament
The European Parliament voted in favour of a report calling on the EU to stop funding and contributing to deforestation. The report recognizes the driving forces behind deforestation, in particular … [Read more...]
Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Promoting Tree Plantations, Reducing Forests to Tradable Carbon Stores
Via World Rainforest Movement bulletin: The 22nd annual UN climate meeting has come and gone in 2016, with governments celebrating the ratification of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, adopted … [Read more...]
Deforestation Can Have Effects Beyond Local Landscape
Via the University of Washington: Major forest die-offs due to drought, heat and beetle infestations or deforestation could have consequences far beyond the local landscape. Wiping out an entire … [Read more...]
