Mission

Global Justice Ecology Project explores and exposes the intertwined root causes of social injustice, ecological destruction, and economic domination. We focus on stopping dangerous and destructive genetically engineered trees, protecting forests and supporting the rights and struggles of indigenous peoples.

What We Do

Our primary focus is the protection of forests and the defense of indigenous and forest dependent communities who rely on forests throughout the Americas.

Our Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees was founded to protect forests, biodiversity and rural communities from the potentially catastrophic impacts of GE trees. We work nationally and internationally, building alliances with organizations as well as Indigenous and forest dependent communities and have prevented the large-scale deployment of GE trees using community organizing, media, direct action and legal strategies.

Our goal is to permanently stop the release of GE trees into forests or the environment anywhere in the world. Right now, we are fighting the imminent threat from development of industrial plantations of genetically engineered trees, and the proposed release of GE trees directly into forests where they could contaminate and endanger wild trees. The USDA is considering deregulating GE trees for this purpose right now. Besides the unknown, unknowable and irreversible impacts from the GE trees themselves, industrial tree plantations are already known to be extremely flammable and consume twice the water of native forests. They also provide no habitat for wildlife, and result in the forced displacement of communities and the destruction of forests.

In addition to our work on GE trees, we use media as a strategic tool to educate the public on the dangers of climate change, fossil fuels and false solutions to climate change such as biomass electricity production and large-scale hydroelectricity.

Since 2004 we have traveled to UN conferences around the world to connect journalists and reporters directly with those who are fighting climate injustice. We believe their stories are some of the most powerful tools we have to help educate and mobilize people to take action to challenge unjust climate policies.