Aug 16, 2017 | Climate Justice, Featured, Forests, Press Coverage, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
While the public anxiously awaits the USDA’s final decision regarding the approval of the commercial release of ArborGen’s highly controversial GE eucalyptus trees, even the high profile GE tree professor Steve Strauss has his doubts. In an article...
Jul 20, 2017 | Climate Justice, Featured, Social Media News
Farmington, NY — The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY) denounced the USDA’s permit for the world’s first open-air trials of the Genetically Engineered (GE) Diamondback moth to be released in Geneva, NY. This announcement came concurrently...
Jul 19, 2017 | Bioenergy, Chile-All, Deforestation, Featured, Forests, No GE Trees News, Rainforest, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
Statement from Biofuelwatch, Global Justice Ecology Project and Indigenous Environmental Network New York (US)–New Zealand-owned tree biotechnology company ArborGen faces near unanimous opposition to commercial deregulation of their genetically engineered...
Jul 6, 2017 | Bioenergy, Chile-All, Climate Justice, Deforestation, Featured, Forests, No GE Trees News, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News, Tree Plantations, UN Climate COPs
Washington, DC — Well over a quarter of a million people and 500 organizations submitted comments yesterday rejecting the commercialization of ArborGen Inc.’s genetically engineered (GE) eucalyptus trees, which, if approved, would be the first-ever GE forest tree...
Jun 18, 2017 | Chile-All, Featured, Forests, GMOs, No GE Trees News, Social Media News, Take Action!, Tree Plantations, Uncategorized
The red cockaded woodpecker is one of the endangered species imperiled by the proposed development of GE eucalyptus plantations in its habitat in the US Southeast. Photo courtesy: USFWS Demand the USDA reject genetically engineered eucalyptus trees in the US today!...