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STOP GE Trees
Audio files for environmental stories produced by The Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees and Global Justice Ecology Project.
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This is an excerpt from Nnimmo Bassey's recent interview on Breaking Green, a podcast produced by Global Justice Ecology Project.
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Steve Taylor interviews Southern Illinoisan columnist and reporter, Les Winkler about the Future of the Shawnee National Forest now that a 17 year logging ban has been lifted.
Steve Taylor interviews former Congressman Glenn Poshard about plans to log the Shawnee National Forest. Taylor was on a panel with Poshard at the screening of the documentary, Shawnee Showdown: Keep the Forest Standing which documented protests and legal actions that resulted in a 17 year moratorium on logging in the Southern Illinois forest.
Orin Langelle, GJEP photographer and Steve Taylor, GJEP press secretary talk with WDBX's Glenda Greenhouse about the legacy of Judi Bari. They also discuss the history of the 1990 blockade in the Shawnee National Forest that was part of environmental efforts that led to a 17 year moratorium on logging and parallel efforts in the Redwood forests of Mendocino and Humboldt counties in California. The program was broadcast on Nov. 4 2021.
The future of the Shawnee Forest is discussed in light of recent logging, as well as the film Shawnee Showdown: Keep the Forest Standing by filmmaker Cade Bursell.
This recording starts partway into the interview, and does not bleep a portion of a song sung by Bari as it was on the original WBDX broadcast.
Dr. Michael Dorsey , an environmental scientist who served on the Sierra Club's board of directors for 11 years, called the Sierra Club's recent "cautious endorsement" of the genetically engineered American Chestnut a form of "genetic engineering cronyism".
Dr. Dorsey made the statement on the August 30th episode of Breaking Green podcast produced by Global Justice Ecology Project.
Campaign to STOP GE Trees.
Steve Taylor interviews photojournalist Orin Langelle about a United Nations and World Bank sponsored program called “reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation” (REDD). Langelle reflects on his part in documenting a community’s resistance to a forced relocation from Amador Hernandez in the Lacandon Jungle in 2011. The relocation was to be part of an agreement between the states of California and Chiapas Mexico as part of a REDD agreement.
Read Taylor's recent article in Counterpunch here.
Langelle's reporting was central to the ground-breaking video A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests.
After recently garnering international headlines for video simulating last moments of life for Covid patient, Dr Remy discusses pandemics and global warming.
The Campaign for To STOP Genetically Engineered Trees holds a 10/20/200 press conference. Joining are representatives of the Dogwood Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network and Friends of the Earth. The press conference can also be streamed in totality on KPFA in Berkley.
https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=343938
There are increasing concerns by organic growers as to how the genetically engineered American Chestnut may endanger their certified organic status as Chestnut Growers.
Brian Caldwell owner of Hemlock Grove Farm talks about his opposition to the GE American Chestnut.
Numerous environmental organizations representing millions of members have signed on in opposition to the proposal to spread genetically engineered chestnut trees into the wild. One organization is Dogwood Alliance, which works to protect southern forests across 14 states. The alliance opposes genetically engineered trees and corporate forest plantations as threats to biodiversity and climate.
The plan to release genetically engineered Chestnut trees into the wild is opposed by many environmental groups, including the Indigenous Environmental Network. BJ McManama of the IEN talks about indigenous opposition to the plan.
Anne Peterman warns that approval of the plan to release genetically engineered American Chestnut trees will open the door for the use of GE trees in industrial tree plantations.
Such plantations are already having devastating social and economic impacts around the world.
Petermann argues that adding GE trees will make them even more destructive.
Dr. Rachel Smolker discusses attempts to approve for distribution in the wild the GE US Chestnut Tree with Sabrina Jacobs, as she hosts herRude Awakening show on KPFA.
Dr. Rachel Smolker has a PhD in biology. Smolker discusses the dangers of approving GE Chestnut Trees for release into the wild.
She also discusses how the approval of GE Chestnuts would advance plans for corporate GE Tree plantations that would harm or natural forest ecosystems.
Lois Breault-Melican, former president of the Rhode Island American Chestnut Foundation explains why she and her husband, Dennis, resigned in protest over current plans to seed natural forests with GE American Chestnuts.
Lois explains how TACF is abandoning a decades long, natural, back breeding project that has produced promising results in favor of a proposal from SUNY-ESF researchers to release GE American Chestnuts into wild forest.
Corporate backing of the project, which she believes is a Trojan Horse for corporate GE interests are discussed, as well as their commitment to bringing back a natural version of the Chestnut which has become functionally extinct from blight and logging.