This letter is now posted to all those (206 individuals) who have signed
the petition demanding global ban on GM-trees and who wanted to be
informed about the campaign prosess.
(See more:http://video.elonmerkki.net/forestforum)

On the whole list there is more than 500 individual signatures and more
that 50 organisations. This is a good basis to continue. Great thanks to
all of you for your activity!

1. Join in campaigning!

The future is depending on just the creativity and activity of us all.
How to get the campaign informed to all those millions of people´s who
are strightly against GMO:s and also against GM-trees? Thats the
question and we clearly have not yet found the answer!

We would be very happy to get at least one contact person and campaigner
in every country working with us for this campaign.

If you are interested in this voluntary work pleace
contact:forestforum@video.elonmerkki.net. There is lot to be done before May.

2.DVD-reports for UNFF

The long list of signatories is one important aim, but not the only one.
On the other hand we should have to present also some alternative
guidelines and solutions when we go to Geneva with the petition.

For that preparatory work we invite you and your friends to take part in
workshops in People´s Forest Forum and make your contributions.You need
not to be a doctor or some other professionalist. We hope that
People´sForest Forum could become a real open forum for all of us, local
people around the world. Be free to distribute and forward the
invitation to your contacts.

Specially we are interested of photos, satellite pictures and videos
which could present the forest situation in different countries but also
text based contributions and good web-links are welcome.

3. Action alerts

There has been delivered some important action alerts.

Binod Saharia from India is asking help to stop the destruction of
Himalayan forests:
http://video.elonmerkki.net/forum/thread/?id=25

On http://www.wald.org/raposa/index4.php you can support the land rights
campaign of indigenous peoples of Brasil.

Dont forget to forward the action alert of Global Ban on GM-trees
campaign also moving around!

4. Can you help with translations?

There are many languages which have not got their translation about the
petition text. Video workshop also need help to translate videos from
France to English and from Finnish to English.

For the Forests and the Earth
-without GMO:s

Hannu Hyvönen
campaigner
Global Ban on GM-trees
People´s Forest Forum
ekometsa@sci.fi
videoreports and coordinating:
forestvideo@video.elonmerkki.net

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ACTION ALERT
Sign the petition for un: global ban on gm-trees!
http://video.elonmerkki.net/forestforum

We are asking for your participation in the campaign urging the UN to ban genetically modified trees. In the next weeks, this dynamic Internet action will be focused on collecting as many signatures as possible for a petition to be presented to the UN Forum on Forests in Geneva next May.

The campaign has now been widely accepted all over the world. The list of groups and campaigners having signed the petition so far includes fi. World Rainforest Movements, Friends of the Earth International, Scottish Green Party and the Global Forest Coalition - and a lot of other organisations and individuals around the world.

We are very happy about all the signatures and we hope that in these last weeks the list will still rapidly grow.

We hope that you and your organisation will give the campaign your strong support and this message will be widely forwarded to your friends and members.

Please dont hesitate to contact with us by your possibilities for cooperation and suggestions for the future of this campaign.

Global Ban on GM-trees People´s Forest Forum contact: forestforum@video.elonmerkki.net

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INVITATION

FORESTS FOR THE EARTH AND PEOPLE
-open workshops for producing reports for the United Nations Forum on
Forest in next May

People´s Forest Forum and the campaign for Global Ban on GM-trees
arrange an open forum for workshops about forests and forest use. In the
workshops we seek the understanding of the real situation of the forest
cover on the Earth and the
sustainable and just alternatives and solutions for the future. The aim
is to produce for UN Forum on Forest a dvd-report by this work.

We invite you and your organisation by your contributions take part in
this work.

People´s Forest Forum
http://video.elonmerkki.net/forestforum
forestforum@video.elonmerkki.net

Workshops:

1. What is the forest -discussion about consepts

2. Ecoforestry as a solution
-presentation of organic alternatives for silviculture

3. Ecologically sound and sustainable methods for preventing erosion and
deforestation and alternatives for reforestation

4. Alternatives for fibre production and decreasing the paper consuption

5. Ecological agroforestry as one alternative for industrial GM-tree
plantations

6. Forest, energy and forestry

7. Forests, people and multiple use

8. Forest, justice and the First People

9. National and local reports and analyses

10. A videoworkshop: What is happening in the forests of the Earth

11. Global Ban on GM-trees

12. Cultural club

You can take part on workshops by -sending different
contributions,comments, articles, videos, links etc.
to these forumsites. Please contact:forestforum@video.elonmerkki.net