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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> The list groups and organisation which have already signed the petition for Global Ban on GM trees
> The list of parlamentarians and political parties in diffserent countries who have signed the petition