Forest Stewardship Council announced in February 2022, that it is starting a “learning process on genetic engineering in forestry outside of FSC-certified area” thus opening the door to GE trees.
12 Replies to 12 Lies about Industrial Tree Plantations
12 Replies to 12 Lies about Industrial Tree Plantations: World Rainforest Movement’s new publication counters the myths put out by plantation companies and their supporters.
Munduruku Indigenous communities oppose REDD project on their territory
Munduruku Indigenous communities recently held a meeting in which they opposed a proposed REDD project on their territory.
The Madre de Dios Amazon REDD+ Project: FSC blocks and suspends logging company Maderyja. The REDD project (which consists of two logging concessions and overlaps the territory of Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation) is still selling carbon offsets
Madre de Dios Amazon REDD+ Project: One of the logging companies has lost its FSC certificate. The concession also overlaps the territory of Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation.
The Amazon tipping point crisis
The Amazon tipping point at which the rainforest undergoes a process of savannisation has in places already started, a new report argues.