Will you give our forests the gift of a future free from GMO trees?
Celebrate a holiday victory for the forests!
On December 8, after more than 10 years of promoting the release of genetically engineered (GE/GMO) chestnut trees into wild forests, The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) and their researchers unexpectedly announced they were abandoning their attempt to win government approval for the GE tree.
This came one day after we sent national media a press release exposing that the D58 chestnut tree was having significant problems and that researchers should withdraw their request for government approval.
With the support of people like you, we successfully kept the D58 genetically engineered chestnut tree out of our forests!
If we had not been there to oppose TACF, these GE trees could have been released into forests where they would have wreaked havoc with wild American chestnuts and all of the wildlife that depends on healthy forests.
Will you help us celebrate more than 20 years of successfully defending forests and communities from the dangers of genetically engineered trees–and help us stop them for the next 20 years–with a gift today?
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Why Oppose Genetically Engineered Trees?
Forests make life on Earth possible.
Yet researchers and corporations are trying to get permission to release unproven and risky genetically engineered (GE) trees into wild forest ecosystems and new industrial plantations. Releasing GE trees on a large scale is a dangerous and irreversible experiment.
There are no long-term risk assessments to understand the impacts of releasing GE trees into the environment, and geneticists warn such assessments are not possible with trees that live hundreds of years.
GE trees would not protect nature, they would replace it.
Please join the effort to protect forests and the communities that depend on them from the unpredictable and irreversible threats of GE trees.
Please donate today!
Thank you!
World renowned geneticist Dr. David Suzuki explains the dangers of GE trees:
"We have no control over the movement of insects, birds and mammals, wind and rain that carry pollen. GM trees, with the potential to transfer pollen for hundreds of miles carrying genes for traits including insect resistance, herbicide tolerance, sterility and reduced lignin, thus have the potential to wreak havoc throughout the world’s native forests...
The rush to apply these ideas is absolutely dangerous because we don't have a clue what the long-term impact of our manipulations is going to be."