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GJEP Documentary Highlights Brazil’s Green Deserts of Monoculture Eucalyptus Plantations
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September 5, 2024
Celebrating our 20th Anniversary
Celebrating our 20th Anniversary
Members of the Steering Committee of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees and other invited participants from around the world are coming together in Brazil in May-June 2023 to develop plans for the international campaign to stop the commercial development of genetically engineered trees, and to support and highlight opposition to the plans by the Suzano pulp and paper company to develop plantations of genetically engineered eucalyptus trees in Brazil.
The Campaign will meet with Brazilian NGOs and government officials, as well as documenting and amplifying the voices and concerns of rural communities on the front lines of resisting the devastating social and ecological impacts of industrial tree plantations.
A July 25, 2023 article that appeared in 100% Noticias’ Website (originally posted in Spanish) discusses how actor Leonardo Di Caprio published an Instagram post denouncing the situation in the Indio Maíz reserve, Nicaragua, where illegal cattle farming is the cause of the “death” of thousands of hectares of forest and also the violations of indigenous populations. His post included the following “As Nicaragua faces an escalating crisis—with illegal cattle ranchers and miners decimating the irreplaceable Indio-Maíz Biological Reserve—the government has an opportunity to step up and safeguard its wild lands, biodiversity, and Indigenous and local communities who depend on them.”
The post also promotes the film PATROL that follows the Rama and Kriol communities in Nicaragua fighting to protect their ancestral lands from the invasion of illegal cattle ranchers.
Take Action!
There is a petition on the film’s website that can be signed to demand greater transparency and stricter controls of Nicaragua’s Beef Supply Chains, as well as an Open Letter to 118th Congress (USA) that can be signed.
To read about the history of GJEP’s work in Chile, visit: https://globaljusticeecology.org/?s=mapuche
To read articles documenting the Mapuche struggle from the left Resumen media outlet in Chile visit: https://resumen.cl/tag/mapuche/#google_vignette
To read about Coordinadora Arauco Malleco: Recovering pre-colonial autonomy in Wallmapu, visit: https://icmagazine.org/recovering-pre-colonial-autonomy-wallmapu-25677/#_ftn3
