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 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).

The occupation of the Mapuche peoples’ ancestral territories by large-scale eucalyptus and pine plantations belonging to major forestry companies such as CMPC and Forestal Bosques ARAUCO relies for its expansion on the support of State machinery. Repression, torture, death and criminalization of Mapuche resistance are the background for the “forestry model.” The Mapuche conflict is a sort of leprosy in Chilean society: concealed, stigmatized and denied.