WRM information sheets on GE tree research
First posted: 1 August 2008
Modified: 27 November 2008
Modified: 7 August 2009
Last update: August 2014
Tree species being manipulated:
Other information
WRM information sheets on GE tree research
First posted: 1 August 2008
Last update: August 2014
Tree species being manipulated:
Nordmann Fir (Abies nordmanniana) (1)
Aim of genetic manipulation
WRM information sheets on GE tree research
First posted: 1 August 2008
Last update: August 2014
Tree species being manipulated:
hybrid aspen (Populus)
silver birch (Betula pendula)
Aim of genetic manipulation
WRM information sheets on GE tree research
First posted: 1 August 2008
Updated: 15 August 2008, based on information from (1)
Last update: August 2014
Tree species being manipulated: (1,2,3)
WRM information sheets on GE tree research
First posted: 1 August 2008
Updated: 21 August 2008
Updated: 23 January 2009
Last Update: 2014
Tree species being manipulated:
WRM information sheets on GE tree research
First posted: 1 August 2008
Modified: 7 August 2009
Last update: July 2014
Tree species being manipulated:
Poplar
Eucalyptus
Pine (Pinus halepensis)
Aim of genetic manipulation
WRM information sheets on GE tree research
First posted: 1 August 2008
Last update: July 2014
Tree species being manipulated:
WRM information sheets on GE tree research
First posted: 1 August 2008
Updated: 15 August 2008
Updated 7 August 2009
Last update August 2014
Tree species being manipulated:
WRM information sheets on GE tree research
First posted: 1 August 2008
Last update: 2014
Forest tree species being manipulated:
poplar, eucalyptus and spruce (1)
Aim of genetic manipulation
WRM information sheets on GE tree research
First posted: 1 August 2008
Updated: 14 August 2008, based on information from (1)
Last update: 2014
Tree species being manipulated: (1)
An article in June’s WRM Bulletin highlighted Unilever’s role in the threat to Tanoe Swamps Forest, one of the last remaining forest blocks in Cote d’Ivoire. Following international protests, Unilever now ‘promises’ an Environmental Impact Assessment but has given no guarantee that the forest will be protected. Instead, they have publicised their long-standing plans to sell shares in PALM-CI, which holds the concession for Tanoe, although they will remain a major PALM-CI customer. Behind the announcement, and possibly behind the plans to destroy Tanoe Forest, lie far-reaching changes in
On 17 June 2008, a federal court in the city of Eunápolis, in the state of Bahia, passed sentence in a public civil suit filed in 1993 by the Brazilian Federal Public Prosecutor's Office against Veracel Celulose – known at the time as Veracruz Florestal – and the government environmental agencies CRA (Centre for Environmental Resources, responsible for environmental licensing in the state of Bahia) and IBAMA (Brazilian Environmental Institute, the national environmental authority).