Oct 15, 2020 | Featured, Forests, GMOs, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
Woman with the Organization of Rural Women Workers protests Monsanto’s GMO seeds during a march in Curitiba, Brazil. Photo: Petermann (2006) Note: For decades, rural women around the world have been on the front lines of the battles to stop the toxic and deadly...
Sep 24, 2020 | all other, Climate Justice, Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Featured, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Social Media News, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
Photo: Sharratt/The Campaign to Stop GE Trees (Seneca/Welsh) Brenda Jo has been involved with Indigenous and environmental issues for over 25 years. Beginning in the early 1990s working with WV State agencies on NAGPRA, opposition to mountaintop/strip coal mining...
Sep 21, 2020 | Chile-All, Deforestation, Featured, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, No GE Trees News, Press Releases, Pressroom, Protests & Resistance, Rainforest, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
For Immediate Release – September 21, 2020 New York– September 21, 2020 marks the 16th International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations. The Day was created in 2004 by rural communities in Brazil in opposition to industrial monoculture tree plantations...
Sep 18, 2020 | all other, Chile-All, Concerned Photography, Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Environmental Justice, Featured, Forests, No GE Trees News, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
Burned eucalyptus plantation in the community Manquo in Florida, in the zone of the wildfires near Concepción, Chile Monday, 21 September marks the International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations. Global Justice Ecology Project has compiled a list...
Sep 16, 2020 | Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Featured, Forests, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod · Earth Minute: Wildfires & Genetically Engineered Trees Around the world historic and deadly wildfires are occuring. Poor forest management and industrial tree plantations, along with climate change are creating apocalyptic...