Large-Scale Tree Plantations
Industrial tree plantations are large-scale, intensively managed, even-aged monocultures, involving vast areas of fertile land under the control of plantation companies. Management of plantations involves the use of huge amounts of water as well as agrochemicals—which harm humans, and plants and animals in the plantations and surrounding areas.
Bulletin articles
10 April 2015
Bulletin articles
10 April 2015
Bulletin articles
10 April 2015
Transgenic forestry in Chile is shrouded in mystery, secretiveness and corporate lobbies. While state agencies deny that transgenic trees have been released into the environment, laboratories, universities and companies devoted to forestry-related biotechnology multiply in the country, supported by public funds. Schizophrenia, a sudden scientific interest or reprehensible political irresponsibility?
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10 April 2015
Aljazeera’s People and Power TV program released a video on the social and environmental consequences of oil palm plantations in Cameroon, where the government has been trying to attract the palm oil industry by offering a number of incentives.
Other information
9 April 2015
Decision made in violation of national law and international protocols
Action alerts
30 March 2015
By The Campaign to STOP GE Trees. Sign below to insist CTNBio not approve GMO Trees!
On Thursday 5 March, the Brazilian Biosafety Commission (CTNBio) was scheduled to decide whether to approve the commercial release of GE trees developed by FuturaGene. This meeting was cancelled after it was disrupted by activists, and after FuturaGene’s operations were taken over by 1,000 women earlier that same day.
Action alerts
30 March 2015
Only available in Spanish.
Por Alianza Biodiversidad y Red por una América Latina Libre de Transgénicos.
Publications
20 March 2015
United Nations’ 2015 International Day of Forests. Theme: “Forests / Climate / Change”. What change?
Download as pdf here.
The aim of this document is to respond to this year’s campaign for March 21 carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In a very short video, FAO highlights forests’ capacity to trap CO2 and suggests: “Sustainably managed forests are the frontline against climate change.”
Multimedia
20 March 2015
This two-minutes video is a rebuttal of the one-minute video produced by FAO for International Day of Forests.
The video aims to challenge the FAO video for March 21, which narrowly and erroneously views forests as if they were a “storage facility” for wood and carbon.
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11 March 2015
On December 8, 2014, a group of extraordinary women leaders gathered in Lima, Peru during the UN climate negotiations to speak out against issues of social and ecological injustice, and to share stories and plans of action for building a liveable, equitable world. Indigenous women from different places shared their experiences and struggles.