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First posted:
1 August 2008
Tree
species being manipulated:
- hybrid aspen (Populus)
- silver birch (Betula pendula)
Aim
of genetic manipulation
- flowerless trees
(silver birch)
- fixation of carbon dioxide
Those
carrying out the research
- Finnish Forest
Research Institute
- Research Programme on Environmental, Societal and Health Effects
of Genetically Modified Organisms (ESGEMO)
- Joensuu University
- Helsinki University
Those
who provide support to research
-
Regulatory
framework for research and field trials
- field trials monitored
by the Finnish Board of Gene Technology
Field
trial
- Non-flowering silver
birch 1000m2 trial of the University of Joensuu at Joensuu. Proposed
period of release: 12/06/2005 to 31/10/2008
Organizations
opposing GE trees
- Three Finnish environmental
NGOs (the Union of Ecoforestry, the People´s Biosafety Association,
and Friends of the Earth Finland) launched an international campaign
against GE trees in 2004
Actions
by unidentified actors
- A field trial belonging
to the Finnish Forest Research Institute with Silver birch was destroyed
June 18-21, 2004. The trial destroyed was located on the northern
side of the Savonlinna-Punkaharju road. All of the nearly 400 seedlings
planted in the fenced and locked site of 2000 square meters were broken
off or ripped from the ground
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