Information by subject: Biotechnology

WRM PUBLICATIONS ON GM TREES
Ethanol from cellulose: A technology that could spell disaster By World Rainforest Movement., December 2008 - Also available in Spanish
GE tree research. A country by country overview A WRM Briefing. November 2008
Transgenic Trees. A WRM Briefing. December 2007. Also available in Spanish , French and in Portuguese.
Genetically Modified Trees. The Ultimate Threat to Forests. Research commissioned to Chris Lang by World Rainforest Movement and Friends of the Earth International. December 2004. Also available in Spanish ans Portuguese
ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE WRM BULLETIN
2011 Terminator technology in agricultural crops and GEtrees: A threat to food sovereignty Transgenic trees: The industry race is on 2010 Ending deforestation through socially just measures, not markets Action in the CBD against GM trees 2009 Action in the CBD against GM trees The Miyth Busters GE trees: when scientists mutate into publicists Arborgen Seeks to Legalize GE Eucalyptus Trees in U.S. -Brazil is Not Far Behind Field trial of genetically modified trees: Belgian government’s contribution to International Day for Biological Diversity China: Facing two evils -deforestation and monoculture tree plantations Declaration of Heredia on Climate, Forests and Plantations New WRM Information tools 2008 China: The vicious circle of tree plantations, GM trees, pulp-mills and wasteful paper consumption Four recent WRM briefings related to climate change Bursts of true life into the Convention on Biological Diversity Belgium: Field trials planned of GM poplar trees for ethanol Growing networking against GE trees Aotearoa/New Zealand: Scion's GE trees cut down! Brazil and Chile: Concern over research on transgenic trees PAN joins the struggle against transgenic trees The Convention on Biodiversity, GM trees and paper consumption 2007 ArborGen – the world's biggest GM tree research company plans to get bigger European Forest Institute chooses to ignore the "overwhelmingly negative" social effects of GM trees Clear as mud: FSC's position on GM trees Sweden: Research into GE trees risks irreversible damage to forests Tree plantations, GM trees and agrofuels: A call to CBD Agro-fuels: A turn of the screw in power concentration Eucalyptus plantations as biomass fuel: substituting evil for wrong USA: GE Trees by ArborGen challenged by environmental groups Treethanol: A remedy worse than the malady 2006 Adding problems: GE poplar, cellulose and biofuel United States: Opposition to U.S. Conference on Fast Growing Plantations GE Trees: Contradictions in United Nations Conventions Sign-on letter to CBD urging a ban on genetically modified trees India: Will new National Forest Policy open the door to GM trees? UN Convention on Biological Diversity: Important decision on GE trees 2005 GE Trees at the meeting in Vitoria Health Threats of Genetically Engineered Trees Presenting GMO Trees to the United Nations COP 10 2004 Special Bulletin on Genetically Modified Trees China: Genetically modified madness Genetically engineered trees: The pulp industry's dangerous "solution" Genetically modified trees cause memory loss Climate change: Hot air, fake science and genetically modified trees 2003 United States: International GE tree campaign target International Paper United States: Kinkos says no to genetically engineered trees Aotearoa/New Zealand: US company to grow genetically engineered trees? 2002 Mexico: Complaints that Conservation International is requesting repression against Zapatistas and peasants Argentina: Genetic engineering causes deforestation Playing God with trees for money making Biotechnology: The dangerous paradigm of modern industrial forestry 2001 Japan: Paper industry involved in genetic engineering of eucalyptus Ecuador: Commercial exploitation of forest peoples Genetically-modified oil palms: The final threat USA: Genetically engineered trees destroyed at Oregon State University 2000 Future Forest Policy must exclude GMO trees Uruguay: No transgenic trees ... for the time being Aotearoa/New Zealand: Opposition to genetically engineered trees Campaign against genetically engineered trees Hawaii: Planned invasion of genetically manipulated trees 1999 Call for global moratorium on genetically engineered trees Scary genetically engineered trees No to patenting of life! Genetically engineered trees generate reaction Super Trees: the biotech nightmare is already here 1997 Clonal monocultures and genetic engineering in New Zealand
WRM SPECIAL BULLETIN ON GENETICALLY MODIFIED TREES
Special Bulletin Nº 88 - November 2004 (complete version) A large number of scientists are actively working on genetically modifying trees, to better serve industry's economic aims. Field trials are already being carried out in a number of countries and GM poplars have already been released in China, regardless of the dangers that all this implies for the world's forests. This bulletin is aimed at sharing some of the information available and at urging concerned people to involve themselves in this issue. A good starting point would be to sign the petition for a Global Ban on GM trees, (available at http://elonmerkki.net/dyn/appeal/), which will be presented next month at the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Climate Change, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
VIDEO
Video "The Silent Forest" (click to watch) The documentary is available in DVD format on the internet from: http://www.customflix.com/207574 or else contact Global Justice Ecology Project: PO Box 412, Hinesburg, VT 05461, USA, +1 802 482 2689, info@globaljusticeecology.org
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
Jim Hightower: The invasion of genetically engineered eucalyptus - Listen to Hightower's commentary - August 2009 GE trees: when scientists mutate into publicists A critique on a recent pro GE trees article - July 2009 GE Tree Field Trials in Russia planned for October 2009 - July 2009 Opposition to GE Eucalyptus Field Trials in Southern US - July 2009 Field trials with Genetically modified trees in Belgium - May 2009 FIELD TRIALS WITH GENETICALLY MODIFIED TREES IN BELGIUM - May 2009 WRM information sheets on GE tree research - Where? Which trees? What for? By who? Who support? Who regulates? Who oppose? - August 2008 GE Trees, Cellulosic Ethanol & Destruction of Forest Biological Diversity - By Global Justice Ecology Project and Global Forest Coalition - February 2008 Latin American Network asks Brazilian and Chilean Goverments to Stop GE Trees Researchs - Press Release- 16 January 2008 Only available in Spanish and Portuguese Open letter on GE tree research to the President of Chile, Mrs Michelle Bachelet - January 2008 (Also available in Spanish) Open letter on GE tree research to the President of Brazil, Mr. Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva - January 2008 (Also available in Spanish) Large Alliance of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples Calls for Ban on Genetically Modified Trees for Biofuels - Press Release by Global Justice Ecology Project , Global Forest Coalition and the World Rainforest Movement - July 4th 2007 Moratorium on all GM Trees and Ban on GM Forest Trees Genetically modified (GM) trees have all the hazards of GM crops only worse, GM forest trees, in particular, are the ultimate threat to people and planet. Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho update the ecological and health risks since ISIS' last comprehensive review. February 2007 Letter to the CBD to ban GM Trees - November 15th 2006 At its last Conference of the Parties (COP8), the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted a very important Decision in relation to the issue of genetically modified trees and invited everyone “to provide relevant views and information to the Secretariat for inclusion in this assessment”. ¿Arboles transgénicos? No, gracias - por Silvia Ribeiro, octubre 2006 (Only in Spanish) Letter to the CBD to ban GM Trees - September 2006 - also available in Spanish and Portuguese Plantations, GM trees and indigenous rights - By Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle. Seeding, July 2006 COP 8 - Decision VIII/19. Forest biological diversity: implementation of the programme of work Curitiba, March 2006 Participants at Montreal Meetings of Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety Call for CBD Moratorium on Genetically Engineered Trees 3 June 2005 - Montreal, QC, Canada Flyer by Friends of the Earth International and World Rainforest Movement to be distributed at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in its 10th session (COP10) in Buenos Aires - from 6 to 17 December 2004. Kenya's Forests Secretly Contaminated with GE-Trees. How it goes and how it is operated ! ECOTERRA Intl. - AfricaNode Demand to the United Nations Forum on Forests: Ban Genetically Engineered Trees Geneva, Switzerland - 10 May 2004 Action Alert: Sign the Petition for UN: Global Ban on Gm-Trees! (February 2004) GM Forest Trees – The Ultimate Threat - by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Professor Joe Cummins - 2004 GE Trees: Myths Vs. Reality by Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project GE Trees and Global Warming: The Myth of Carbon Offset Forestry by Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project Los Transgénicos en el Mundo por José Santamarta - publicado en Ecoportal The Johannesburg Declaration on Biopiracy, Biodiversity and Community Rights. By Biowatch - August 2002 Designer forests: The Development of GM Trees GeneWatch UK Briefing Number 16 - September 2001 Action Alert - Native Forest Network: GE Tree protest coming up (July 2001) "The Perfect Neoliberal Tree": Genetic Engineering, Free Trade, and Industrial Forestry in the Global South". By Jason Ford - GeneWatch - May 2001 Pulp Fiction. Genetically engineered trees Greenpeace Background Briefing - November 2000 Genetically Modified Trees: A Global Threat - by Native Forest Network - March 2000 Transgenic Trees - by Anne Petermann - Taiga News Issue 33 GM technology in the forest sector: a scoping study for WWF Genetic Dialectic: The Biological Politics of Genetically Modified Trees - by Viola Sampson and Larry Lohmann - The Cornerhouse - Briefing Can't see the trees for the wood - article published in Seedling newsletter - September 2000
LINKS
STOP GE Trees Campaign http://www.nogetrees.org GeneWatch UK http://www.grain.org/front/ GeneWatch - The Council for Responsible Genetics http://www.gene-watch.org/ Genetically Engineered Trees - GENET News Articles http://www.genet-info.org/information-services/genetically-engineered-trees/page/3.html GRAIN - Genetic Resources Action International http://www.grain.org Northwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering http://www.nwrage.org/ Revista Biodiversidad http://www.grain.org/biodiversidad2.htm Seedling - The quarterly newsletter of Grain http://www.grain.org/seedling/ Union of concerned scientists http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_environment/genetic_engineering/ México - Diversidad Biológica y Cultural / Biotecnología http://www.laneta.apc.org/biodiversidad/transgen.htm Sierra Club - Genetically Engineered Trees http://www.sierraclub.org/biotech/trees.asp Corporate Watch http://www.corpwatch.org/ GE - Free New Zealand in food and environment http://www.gefree.org.nz/index.htm Global Justice Ecology Project / Genetically Engineered Trees Program http://globaljusticeecology.org/index.php?page=getrees