UNITED KINGDOM: WORLD WILDLIFE FUND WARNS THAT INCREASED PLANTING OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED TREES COULD POSE SERIOUS RISK OF GLOBAL GENERIC POLLUTION
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UNITED KINGDOM: WORLD WILDLIFE FUND WARNS THAT INCREASED PLANTING OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED TREES COULD POSE SERIOUS RISK OF GLOBAL GENERIC POLLUTION
- Title: UNITED KINGDOM: WORLD WILDLIFE FUND WARNS THAT INCREASED PLANTING OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED TREES COULD POSE SERIOUS RISK OF GLOBAL GENERIC POLLUTION
- Date: 9th November 1999
- Summary: LONDON, UK (NOVEMBER 9, 199) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV NEWS CONFERENCE PODIUM 0.06 2. SCU DR RACHEL ASANTE OWUSU "When we go on to consider the actual risks which are posed by the GM trees it is possible to put these risks into two categories. - The first category is the direct risk - that is those risks that are posed by the GM trees themselves. An example of this is the GM trees that have escaped that have been engineered to outcompete natural vegetation for sunlight and water and that have the potential to become invasive weeds. A second example of a direct risk would be plantations consisting of fast growing GM trees that require more water and soil nutrients, this leading to an irrecoverable loss in site productivity and an unsustainibility in the plant site resulting in more land rather than less land being needed to produce GM plantation." 1.12 3. SV CUTAWAY JOURNALISTS 1.18 4. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) FRANCIS SULIVAN, DIRECTOR OF CONSERVATION, WWWF-UK: "Well,WWF launching its report today is drawing as line in the sand and saying the explosive growth of new trials that are not properly regulated for GM trees needs to be stopped and better regulated. We also believe that certain countries, possibly Chile, possibly Indonesia, possibly China, are rushing headlong into commercialisation, in other words planting large areas of trees which will feed into the supply chain for wood products and could be turning up in pulp, paper, any form of wood produce around the world in a matter of years." 1.52 5. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) RICHARD TAPPER, DIRECTOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL BUSINESS AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP: "Well one of the most important things which is under negotiation is is a bio-safety protocol. This protocol would provide countries around the world with the right to say no to imports of genetically modified organism of whatever kind and that would require any person planning to make an export of a GM modified organism to another country to seek the advance informed agreement of that country before proceeding with any proposed export.We believe that this is absolutely essential. This is a basic mechanism to ensure that genetically modified organisms are not going to be sloshing around the world in the absence of any controls whatsoever." 2.37 FILE (WWF VNR) 6. PAN/SV FOREST IN UNKNOWN LOCATION (2 SHOTS) 2.56 7. VARIOUS TREE HARVESTING IN TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA (4 SHOTS) 3.25 8. VARIOUS SITE OF GM TREE TRIALS IN ARDON, FRANCE (4 SHOTS) 3.55 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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