New Zealand Attempts to Change Forestry Laws to be Favorable to GE Trees
This analysis comes from anti-GE tree activists in New Zealand organizing nationally to prevent key changes in the national forestry laws that would prevent communities from being able to stop the...
View ArticleNZ government receives 16K submissions against genetically engineered trees
New Zealand’s Ministry of Primary Industries has received over 16,550 submissions and petitions on the National Environment Standards for Plantation Forestry (NES-PF). All 16,000 submissions...
View ArticleMinistry Ignores Thousands of Public Submissions on Genetically Engineered Trees
This release from late 2015 comes from GE Free NZ and Rage Inc. The release illustrates how widespread the threat of genetically engineered trees has become around the world. An update by the...
View ArticleLISTEN: UNSR on the impact of the TPP on Indigenous Peoples
In this report from Indigenous Rights Radio, UN Special Rapporteur Vicky Tauli Corpuz discusses the international trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership which is being negotiated by...
View ArticleHistory of Failures Warrants Local Say on GMOs
History of Failures Warrants Local Say on GMOs Note: GE Free New Zealand recently joined the steering committee of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees. Evidence of regulatory failures by authorities was...
View ArticleNew Zealand: Protect Right of Regions to Say NO to GE Trees
This week, GE Free NZ Stop GE Trees is asking New Zealanders to send a letter to a National MP asking them to ensure that GE trees are removed from the National Environmental Standard for Plantation...
View ArticleGE Trees Bad for Exports and Environment
photo: Petermann/GJEP Via GE Free New Zealand: Certified timber exports as well as the environment will be put at risk if Genetically Engineered Trees are included in the National Environment Standard...
View ArticleGenetically Engineered Trees: Minister’s Threat to Modify Democracy Is A Step...
Via GE Free NZ: NEW ZEALAND – The Minister for the Environment, Dr. Nick Smith, is due to approve the National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry (NES-PF).[1] The Ministry of Primary...
View ArticleNew Zealand MP Publishes Photos of Scion’s GE Trees
Steffan Browning, Member of Parliament for the Green Party of Aotearoa, New Zealand recently published photos of genetically engineered trees being grown in his country by the Scion company to his...
View ArticlePressure Mounts Against New Zealand’s Scion to Stop their GE Trees
GE Free New Zealand, a member of the Steering Committee of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, continues to denounce research on genetically engineered (GE) trees by Scion, New Zealand’s Crown Research...
View ArticleNew Zealand Attempts to Change Forestry Laws to be Favorable to GE Trees
This analysis comes from anti-GE tree activists in New Zealand organizing nationally to prevent key changes in the national forestry laws that would prevent communities from being able to stop the...
View ArticleNZ government receives 16K submissions against genetically engineered trees
New Zealand’s Ministry of Primary Industries has received over 16,550 submissions and petitions on the National Environment Standards for Plantation Forestry (NES-PF). All 16,000 submissions...
View ArticleMinistry Ignores Thousands of Public Submissions on Genetically Engineered Trees
This release from late 2015 comes from GE Free NZ and Rage Inc. The release illustrates how widespread the threat of genetically engineered trees has become around the world. An update by the...
View ArticleLISTEN: UNSR on the impact of the TPP on Indigenous Peoples
In this report from Indigenous Rights Radio, UN Special Rapporteur Vicky Tauli Corpuz discusses the international trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership which is being negotiated by...
View ArticleHistory of Failures Warrants Local Say on GMOs
History of Failures Warrants Local Say on GMOs Note: GE Free New Zealand recently joined the steering committee of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees. Evidence of regulatory failures by authorities was...
View ArticleNew Zealand: Protect Right of Regions to Say NO to GE Trees
This week, GE Free NZ Stop GE Trees is asking New Zealanders to send a letter to a National MP asking them to ensure that GE trees are removed from the National Environmental Standard for Plantation...
View ArticleGE Trees Bad for Exports and Environment
photo: Petermann/GJEP Via GE Free New Zealand: Certified timber exports as well as the environment will be put at risk if Genetically Engineered Trees are included in the National Environment Standard...
View ArticleGenetically Engineered Trees: Minister’s Threat to Modify Democracy Is A Step...
Via GE Free NZ: NEW ZEALAND – The Minister for the Environment, Dr. Nick Smith, is due to approve the National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry (NES-PF).[1] The Ministry of Primary...
View ArticleNew Zealand MP Publishes Photos of Scion’s GE Trees
Steffan Browning, Member of Parliament for the Green Party of Aotearoa, New Zealand recently published photos of genetically engineered trees being grown in his country by the Scion company to his...
View ArticlePressure Mounts Against New Zealand’s Scion to Stop their GE Trees
GE Free New Zealand, a member of the Steering Committee of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, continues to denounce research on genetically engineered (GE) trees by Scion, New Zealand’s Crown Research...
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