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Campaign to Stop GE Trees @STOPGETREES
Joined June 2014
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🎥YouTube Premiere: The Wild American Chestnut: A Giant Returns - Wed 10 Dec 4pm EST - Meet Dr. Bernd Heinrich & his thousands of wild American chestnuts in this feel-good holiday film about their amazing comeback! youtu.be/ebywGe-J730 @GMOFreeUSA @GEFreeNZ @biotechaction
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WATCH Dec 4 7pm EST The Wild American Chestnut: A Giant Returns - Bernd Heinrich climbs into this 2nd generation chestnut as part of a tour of the thousands of wild chestnuts on his land. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi… @GMOFreeUSA @GEFreeNZ @NoGMO4Michigan
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‼️ The USDA is recommending approval to release the defective dangerous D54 #GMO chestnut tree into wild forests. SIGN ON BELOW to demand USDA reject the GE chestnut. Comment period closes JULY 21 @GMOFreeUSA @GEFreeNZ @greenpeaceusa @GJEP123 stopgetrees.org/no-ge-chestn…

No GE Chestnuts - STOPGETREES.ORG

USDA Poised to Approve Release of Genetically Engineered American Chestnut trees Based on Botched Research. Defective GMO Chestnut Rejected by Top Chestnut Researchers

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Campaign to Stop GE Trees retweeted
GE Honesty
 @GEHonesty
8 Jun 2025
🌴Gene-edited trees are poisoning Brazil’s forests and waterways. 
Now they’re coming for Pure New Zealand. 🌲GE pine trees are already in NZ, planted by Scion, a government research agency. Source: Anne Peterman (Exec Director - Global Justice Ecology Project). 🔗 Link in bio to join our campaign to stop these experiments. 👇 Drop your comment below. #geneediting #saynotogmo #gefreenz #keepnzgefree #purenewzealand
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Fantastic @InfoGM article on the folly of #GMO poplars for carbon storage, points out the company "is not interested in reducing the use of fossil fuels, since it offers carbon compensation [offsets] to companies that release C02 into the atmosphere." stopgetrees.org/infogm-bioen…
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It is critical to support #Mapuche land rights in Chile and stop the expansion of industrial tree plantations that are destroying #forests, #biodiversity, fresh #water and the #climate. #forestsnotplantations #stopgetrees #keepforestswild
Global Justice Ecology Project @GJEP123
4 Feb 2025
URGENT ALERT‼️Sign on to demand Chile end its racist Usurpation law that criminalizes attempts by #indigenous Mapuches to take back their traditional lands. Sara (here) is the 1st to be tried under the law. Drop her charges! Photos, videos and sign here: globaljusticeecology.org/urg…
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Campaign to Stop GE Trees retweeted
GMO/Toxin Free USA
 @GMOFreeUSA
10 Dec 2024
A new study found that a diet of only 10% GMO soybean oil fed to rats for 90 days caused significant liver and kidney damage. But don't worry. FDA says it's safe. ijdrug.com/Article/ijdrc-304… If you know of food products made with GMO soybean oil, please let others know!
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Campaign to Stop GE Trees retweeted
GMWatch @GMWatch
12 Dec 2024
#GMO salmon company AquaBounty shuts down operations. “We’re glad to see the back of this company after over twenty years of our protests against genetically modified food,” said Sharon Labchuk of GMO Free Prince Edward Island. gmwatch.org/en/106-news/late…
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PRESS RELEASE: A Big Win As UN Convention on Biological Diversity COP16 Reaffirms Geoengineering is a Risk| NOTA DE PRENSA: La COP16 del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica de la ONU reafirma que la geoingeniería es un riesgo handsoffmotherearth.org/reso…
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Action demanding real action to protect biodiversity #stopgetrees and NO offsets @COP16 "The commodification of ecosystems and #biodiversity in the very markets that have driven their destruction and caused mass extinction, is beyond cynical and opportunistic, it is criminal."
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#COP16 "Demand to Ban #GMO trees" "Casey Camp-Horinek, Ambassador of the Environment of the Ponca Nation, sent the Colombian Ambassador to the UN, Leonor Zalabata, a call to ban the expansion of GM trees." #stopgetrees #INDIGENOUS servindi.org/seccion-ambient…
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GJEP UPDATE from the Convention on Biodiversity COP in Cali, Colombia: Save the Amazon from Brazil’s Genetically Modified Trees globaljusticeecology.org/gje…
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#VIDEO #COP16 in Colombia: Save the #Amazon from Brazil’s #GMO Trees - Press conference w Tom Goldtooth, ED of @IENearth, Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher of Federation of German Scientists and Elvis Huni Kui of the Amazon's Huni Kai People. Watch here: stopgetrees.org/gjep-update-… @mercola
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A delegation of @GJEP123 including the Campaign to #stopgetrees is investigating the impacts of the industrial forestry model in Chile. Here we interview a renowned biologist at the top of the Nahuelbute National Park.
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[continued] GJEP visited this community (Kilape Lopez) when they first took over the land in 2019. At that time they were invaded by the Chilean National Police and members shot at. They have stayed on their lands in spite of the repression. Photo: Orin Langelle
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This week the GJEP team visited many Mapuche communities about their struggles. Here we Interviewed the Mapuche Lonko of Kilape Lopez about their work to reclaim traditional lands from timber companies. Photo: Anne Petermann
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If the defective GE American chestnut had been released into national forests, it would have unleashed devastation on the remaining chestnuts. #GMO trees are unpredictable and risky! Sign on to #stopgetrees here: stopgetrees.org/us-forest-se… @NonGMOProject @GMOFreeUSA @standingtrees_

US Forest Service - keep genetically engineered trees OUT of our public forests! - STOPGETREES.ORG

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Global Justice Ecology Project @GJEP123
3 Oct 2024
Urgent Alert! - the US Forest Service is trying to open the door to #GMO trees on our public forests. This is outrageous after attempts to develop a GE American chestnut tree failed utterly. Sign on before Oct 14! stopgetrees.org/us-forest-se…
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Ambassador Leonor Zalabata of Colombia to the UN receives from Ambassador for the Environment for the Ponca Nation Casey Camp-Horinek Call to Ban Genetically Modified Trees from 100 organizations and Indigenous Peoples from 30 countries during UN Climate Week Sep 27, 2024 in NY.
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‼️Urgent Alert - the US Forest Service is trying to open the door to #GMO trees on our public forests. This is outrageous after attempts to develop a GE American chestnut tree wreaked havoc. Sign on today! #keepforestswild #stopgetrees docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Campaign to Stop GE Trees retweeted
Indigenous Environmental Network @IENearth
9 Aug 2024
On the Int’l Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we celebrate the resilience of Indigenous Peoples around the globe! Making up over 6% of the world's population, we are both culturally & linguistically diverse, yet united by our collective commitment to protecting Mother Earth
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