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20+ years protecting forests from threats of GMO trees; amplifying struggles of Indigenous and frontline communities working to defend their lands and more. Read our 2024 Impact Report: https://bit.ly/GJEP-Impact-2024. Donate: https://bit.ly/donate-to-GJEP
NEW! Watch our latest video, The Wild American Chestnut: A Giant Returns! This film documents the thousands of thriving, wild American chestnuts on the land of renowned biologist Dr. Heinrich—contradicting decades of assumptions about the species’ decline.

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December 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
🎥 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 @foeus.bsky.social @dogwoodalliance.org @gmofreeusa.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
NEW! A Return of the Native Enviro Show: Podcast featuring Anne Petermann of GJEP

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December 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
JOIN US TONIGHT Dec 4 @ 7 pm EST for the live premiere of “The Wild American Chestnut: A Giant Returns.”

This good news short film documents thousands of thriving, wild American chestnuts —contradicting decades of assumptions about the species’ decline.

Register: thewildamericanchestnut.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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... @dogwoodalliance.org @foeus.bsky.social @hoodwinkedhothouse.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
📻TUNE IN tomorrow 12/2 from 6-7 PM EST for return of the The Native Enviro Show, where Anne Petermann of GJEP will be discussing the comeback story of the American Chestnut tree! 🌳

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December 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
ICYMI: Breaking Green: American chestnut Revival on A Scientist’s Land In Maine

LISTEN HERE: globaljusticeecology.org/breaking-gre...

[...]Thousands of wild American chestnuts thriving across three generations, challenging the claim that the species cannot return without genetic engineering.
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Mapuche communities denounce torture and application of Anti-Terrorism Law against young people detained in Arauco Province

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Topics: Chile, Climate Justice & Human rights, GJEP, Global Grassroots Action, Latest News, Mapuche, Political Repression & Murder
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
On the International Day Against Violence Against Women (25 Nov 2019) in Temuco - Women marched to raise awareness that women involved in the protests taking place across Chile were targeted for sexual abuse and rape by the Chilean National Police (carabineros). Photo: Langelle/photolangelle.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
"The offspring of these American chestnut trees are producing offspring. These trees are going to on and on."
Register for Dec 4 global premiere of 'The Wild American Chestnut: A Giant Returns': us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @gmwatch.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social @hoodwinkedhothouse.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🌐GloNi: The hybrid eucalyptus trees that large forestry companies in Chile are seeking to expand

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November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
👀NEW from Breaking Green: American chestnut Revival on A Scientist’s Land In Maine 🌳

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November 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
NEW FILM! Coming in December: The Wild American Chestnut: A Giant Returns. The remarkable story of thousands of American chestnuts spanning 3 generations thriving in the forests of western Maine thewildamericanchestnut.org @dogwoodalliance.org @hoodwinkedhothouse.bsky.social @ienearth.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
NEW on Field Notes: @langellephoto.bsky.social Orin Langelle takes us to Brasilia, Brazil, where Indigenous peoples mobilized in 2023 against a law threatening to erase their ancestral land rights.
Field Notes [Episode 10] People over plantations - the fight for land in Brazil - Langelle Photography
https://youtu.be/3URkCeptIsE Transcript: Welcome to Episode 10 of Field Notes. I’m Orin Langelle and I’m a documentary photographer.  I shot this photograph on May 30th, 2023 in Brasilia, Brazil. That...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
GJEP is co-sponsoring an official side event at the UN Climate COP in Belem this Wednesday, November 19, 2025.

The Amazon Is Not for Sale: Funding Indigenous-Led Protection as an Alternative to Green Colonialism

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November 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
in brazil at #COP30 #Indigenous peoples protest exclusion from the COP decisions that focus on using their lands in the #TFFF and other climate schemes. Read the piece here www.theguardian.com/environment/... @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social @ienearth.bsky.social @grain.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Yesterday we received a letter from Lonko Juan Pichun Collonao of the Lof Temulemu, whose struggle we have been reporting on for some time.

Read his letter in full by visiting: globaljusticeecology.org/letter-from-...

Watch/listen to the Field Notes episode here: langellephoto.org/field-notes-...
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Related to that @theguardian.com piece is this 2011 #photo essay I @annegjep.bsky.social shot of a #Veracel eucalyptus operation in Bahia, Brazil on the field trip of an international conference on #GMO trees.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
From today's @theguardian.com An article about the fight in #Brazil to get land back from timber giants and their "green desert" eucalyptus plantations - and the victories people are having! @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social @gmwatch.bsky.social @grain.org @annegjep.bsky.social
‘Green desert’: the farmers winning a battle with Brazil’s wood-pulp giant
Eucalyptus production is dominated by large multinationals that convert farmland and forest into monoculture plantations
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November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
@langellephoto.bsky.social takes us behind the lens at the 2007 UN Climate Change Conference.

Through one powerful photograph, we uncover the story of protest, exclusion, and solidarity — and how one image helped shift the global conversation on climate justice.

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[Field Notes] Episode 9: Indigenous Peoples reject UN-backed unjust false solutions (2007) - Langelle Photography
Field Notes Episode 9: Indigenous Peoples reject UN-backed unjust false solutions (2007) We invite you to join us for Field Notes, a new video series featuring award-winning photojournalist and docume...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
GJEP is working with @ienearth.bsky.social @foeint.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social and many others to Mobilize to stop GE Trees at the CBD in Panama. Read our latest joint IEN-GJEP press release and indigenous participant statements below:
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October 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
VICTORY! Tonawanda Seneca Nation and Sierra Club Declare Victory in Litigation against Massive Data Center; Seek Dismissal of Suit Following Rescission of Approvals

READ MORE HERE: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Press Release - October 21, 2025
PUBLISHED October 21, 2025 Article 78 Litigation materials FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Grandell Logan (Tonawanda Seneca Nation), grandelllogan@gmail.com, 716-982-2909 Tonawanda Seneca Na...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Join us for a webinar on 29 October featuring speakers from our member groups whose stories of resistance to extractivism are included in the latest issue of Forest Cover: Exploited Lands, Exploited Lives.

Wed, 29 Oct 2025
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm UTC
🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM