Infoletter
23th on May 2006
Dear friends
Call for moratorium on GM trees
People´s Forest Forum is an initiative for open global
forum for discussing and reporting of forest issues in different
countries. Our first campaign was against the risks of genetically
modified trees. The petition campaign was a success. By backing
the signatories of individuals and ngo:s we visited in three UN
meetings and distributed our materials in two side events. Look
and print the posters here:
http://video.elonmerkki.net/forestforum/uk/posters/
In last CBD meeting in Brazil lot of countries took
critical position on this issue and also the reports by FAO is quite
critical for introducing transgenic trees.
Look more:
http://video.elonmerkki.net/forum/thread/?id=414
http://video.elonmerkki.net/forum/thread/?id=416
We feel that our campaign has had at least some effect
for this success.
Thanks all of you involved! Be free to continue adding your reports,
news and other information on the workshop on GM trees:
http://video.elonmerkki.net/forum/topic/?catid=71
Finland and global forestry
Now we want to invite people to discuss about Finland´s role
in global forestry. Finland as a state has lot of influence in global
forest policy and globalized Finnish forest industry is powerfull
actor as well all around the world. We believe that there is a good
reason to focus on these activies also from critical perspective.
Last yoik in Saami forests?
We open this discussion with the hot and actual issue of Saami forests
in Finland. Union of Ecoforestry has taken part in producing a critical
videoreportage about the indigenious Saami peoples campaign for
their livelihood and land rights agains Finnish state owned companies.
This documentary movie is presented in UN Indigenious peoples forum
in New York in 23th May 2006.
You can join in discussion in the forum:
http://video.elonmerkki.net/forum/topic/?catid=40
You can load the present version of the movie on the adress:
http://video.elonmerkki.net
For more information on Sámi
forests:
http://www.saamicouncil.net
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/forestrescue
http://www.clearcut.fi
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