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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
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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
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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
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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... @dogwoodalliance.org @foeus.bsky.social @hoodwinkedhothouse.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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📻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! 🌳

🌐https://rss.com/podcasts/enviroshow/
December 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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🌐GloNi: The hybrid eucalyptus trees that large forestry companies in Chile are seeking to expand

READ MORE: globaljusticeecology.org/gloni-the-hy...
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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👀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
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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
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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
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At the UN Biodiversity Convention in Panama, Indigenous leaders raised the alarm: planned use of #GMO trees as “carbon offsets” threaten lands, forests & communities—especially in #Brazil.
#StopGETrees #ClimateJustice #ForestsNotOffsets @annegjep.bsky.social @greenpeace.eu @reddmonitor.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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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
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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
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Photo of Veracel's "clonal garden" at their Bahia eucalyptus plantation (linked to Suzano's #GMO eucalytpus research). See the photo essay here: climate-connections.org/2011/06/30/p... @grain.org @gmofreeusa.bsky.social @gmofreeeurope.bsky.social @theguardian.com @hoodwinkedhothouse.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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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.
climate-connections.org/2011/06/30/p... @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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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
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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
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Timber Industry’s New Strategy: Gene-Edited Trees - How to get around #GMO tree opposition and regulations? pretend gene editing isn't GE! globaljusticeecology.org/the-timber-i...
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A group of people stand in a hallway with colorful signs and banners protesting GE trees, carbon offsets and biodiversity offsets.
October 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Breaking Green: When Arctic Climate “Solutions” Become Colonial Experiments with Panganga Pungowiyi

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October 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Today is the The International Day of Action on Big Biomass: "Cut Subsidies, Not Forests."

#BigBadBiomass

LEARN MORE and take action via the Biomass Action Network: environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa...

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October 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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You’re Invited | “Exploited Lands, Exploited Lives” – Meet the Authors and Activists of Forest Cover 69 (29 Oct, 1pm UTC)

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October 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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on #indigenouspeoplesday we commemorate the genocide of Indigenous Peoples throughout this Hemisphere with our latest Field Notes on the ongoing repression against and resistance by the Mapuche in Wallmapu (Chile) langellephoto.org/field-notes-... @ienearth.bsky.social @survivalinternational.org
October 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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On this episode of Breaking Green we speak with GJEP’s Executive Director Anne Petermann about the human rights delegation to Chile organized by GJEP last October.

LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW HERE: globaljusticeecology.org/mapuche-stru...

#Mapuche #Wallmapu #Chile #PoliticalPrisoners
October 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM