Jan 14, 2019 | Featured, Forests, GE American Chestnut, No GE Trees News, Social Media News
Two staff members of Global Justice Ecology Project (four total from the Campaign to STOP GE Trees) testified before the NAS about the social and ecological dangers of releasing GE trees into wild forests From Nature: Transgenic trees face rocky path from farm to...
Jan 6, 2017 | Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Forests, GE American Chestnut, GMOs, No GE Trees News, Social Media News
Global Justice Ecology Project’s Anne Petermann provided the weekly Earth Minute segment for the Sojourner Truth Radio Show on Wednesday, discussing how genetically engineered American Chestnuts will be bad for forests if released into the wild. The Earth Minute...
Dec 15, 2015 | Featured, Forests, GMOs, Indigenous Peoples, No GE Trees News, Protests & Resistance, Rainforest, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
A handful of scientists are working to genetically engineer the iconic American chestnut tree which they hope to release throughout the forests of the Appalachians and the Eastern US. Indigenous Peoples, scientists and others are raising alarms about the risks...
Dec 15, 2015 | Forests, GMOs, Indigenous Peoples, Press Releases, Pressroom, Protests & Resistance, Rainforest, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 December 2015 New York (15 December 2015)– In the midst of the holiday season, while thoughts turn to roasting chestnuts, a handful of scientists are working to genetically engineer the iconic American chestnut tree which they hope to...