Photo: Orin Langelle Shawnee National Forest, IL: Earth First!ers chase away the Forest Service at the Fairview Timber Sale area in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois. The area slated to be cut was rich in biodiversity, a… Read More

Tea tree plantations in the Western Ghats of India are having a negative impact on bat population diversity in the region, according to a new study. From TheHindu.com: Different bat species can perform these varied ecological functions due to… Read More

Our own Ruddy Turnstone is featured in the second video of Dogwood Alliance’s Forest Defenders series: Stories Happen in Forests! Watch the video & become a Forest Defender at Dogwood Alliance.   More about Ruddy:  Ruddy Turnstone is a GE… Read More

Bruce Watson with the Guardian takes a look back at the evolution of greenwashing in a recent piece. He looks back to when the term emerged in the 1980s, and spotlights some of the biggest “hit” commercials offered… Read More

NOTE: GJEP Executive Director Anne Petermann and Daphne Wysham of SEEN co-founded the Durban Group for Climate Justice in 2004.  Daphne is an expert on climate policy and carbon trading.   Promoting cutting trees to store carbon! It’s… Read More

Via Dogwood Alliance Happy Arbor Day! It’s so easy to love our forests, isn’t it? We know, though, that these gems are threatened. Please help Dogwood Alliance today and share our most recent video, #Stand4Forests, on Facebook, Twitter,… Read More

This week’s guest on the Earth Watch segment on the Sojourner Truth Radio Show was Adam Macon, campaign director at Dogwood Alliance. Dogwood is raising awareness about the manufacturing of United States southern forests into wood pellets that… Read More

  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… Read More

The government of New Zealand are being accused of legislating by stealth by tearing down local protections that prohibit GMOs and GE Trees. The proposed National Environment Standard on Plantation Forestry (NES-PF) would loosen restrictions on genetically modified pine… Read More