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[Stop Gene Drives @StopGeneDrives]

News!🚀We've made the move to LinkedIn to better share our updates on #genedrives. From now on, we'll be focusing our social media activity there. Though our Twitter journey ends here, we look forward to continuing the conversation on LinkedIn! 🧬🌻🐭 https://t.co/EZNDu7zeu5

[Stop Gene Drives @StopGeneDrives]

#GeneDrives: Target Malaria is underestimating the risks // Plans for releases of transgenic mosquitoes are based on flawed data

@testbiotech analysed the most recent findings on gm mosquitoes here https://t.co/Z6CUCHffQD

[GMWatch @GMWatch]

Current Models Assessing Gene Drives Lack Ecological Realism
•Focus more on drive efficacy than ecological effects
• Multiple potentially decisive ecological factors rarely included
•Majority don't incorporate a specific target organism’s life history https://t.co/Y1OEpME27i

[GMWatch @GMWatch]

Good news for red squirrels, which research shows thrive where this native predator is reintroduced and allowed to control the invasive greys. No need for risky gene drives with this natural biological control https://t.co/ydiQogBVVR

[Testbiotech (@testbiotech.bsky.social) @testbiotech]

#NewGeneticEngineering #WeKnowTheDifference

Example. 6: For years, @targetmalaria is planning to release #geneticallyengineered mosquitoes in Burkina Faso. Current research results now show that the planned trials are based on false data and assumptions

https://t.co/S5K3PyWEjT

[Stop Gene Drives @StopGeneDrives]

At a protest today in front of the @UNBiodiversity #COP15 building CSOs denounced the influence of billionaires on biodiversity negotiations. Ali Tapsoba - Terre à Vie in Burkina Faso - criticised the project of Target Malaria to release #genedrives 🦟🌻
https://t.co/X5dKCj0Y3N

[Stop Gene Drives @StopGeneDrives]

At the @UNBiodiversity #COP15 meetings we organised a press conference with our partners from four different African CSOs, talking about the risks of #biotechnology for agricultural biodiversity and the need for a #precautionaryapproach🌱📽️https://t.co/Pt8LCWGaSZ

[Stop Gene Drives @StopGeneDrives]

As the @UNBiodiversity #COP15 started, the CBD Alliance - the official representative body of NGOs - issued an opening statement calling for the #precautionaryprinciple to be preserved, especially in regards to #genedrives 🌍🦟🌻
#biodiversity #post2020 #technologyassessment

[CBD Alliance @CBD_Alliance]

CBDA opening statement #CBD #RIGHTS #IPLCS #FPIC #VAGUENBS #NATUREPOSITIVE

[Stop Gene Drives @StopGeneDrives]

Nicolas Laarman talking about the call for a moratorium on “genetic pesticides”. The promises by the developers of the technologies, that these pesticides will be able to differentiate between “pests” and #pollinators is not very probable.

[Stop Gene Drives @StopGeneDrives]

Happening now at the #COP15 in Montreal. Press conference on the risks of #biotechnologies for pollinators 🐝

#genedrivemoratorium #precautionaryprinciple

[Stop Gene Drives @StopGeneDrives]

Dr. Tom Wakeford talking about the need for many people with different views and expertise to assess these technologies. Proposing to finally agree on the establishment of a multidisciplinary ad hoc expert group here at #COP15
#horizonscanning

[Stop Gene Drives @StopGeneDrives]

Adam Breasley talking about the #genedrive mosquitoes and that gene drives might be used as biotechnological pesticides in the future.

[Stop Gene Drives @StopGeneDrives]

Dana Perls talking about pesticide sprays, to silence genes that are important for insects’ survival. What about #pollinators? 🐝
Also talking about GE microbes, reminding us that we are only starting to understand the role microbes in #nature.

[Stop Gene Drives @StopGeneDrives]

Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher talking about modified gut bacteria in bees so they can better digest pesticides. Is this the way we want to go?

[ETC Group @ETC_Group]

Join us tomorrow for a side event on Technology Horizon Scanning, Assessment & Monitoring. #CBDCOP15

⏰Wednesday Dec 7, 2022 - 6:15pm
📍Business and Industry Meeting Room

Light refreshments will be served!

https://t.co/OTUDzgmuV4

[Friends of the Earth International @FoEint]

"Make sure there's horizon scanning of new technologies because the CBD will be running behind corporate markets and we will suffer the consequences.
CBD must affirm the participation and well-being of IPLCs." Silvia Ribeiro
#COP15 @UNBiodiversity

[Stop Gene Drives @StopGeneDrives]

🌱As #COP15 of the @UNBiodiversity Convention kicks of today the #stopgenedrives campaign is urging that "All CBD watchdogs should guard againstsynthetic biology threats to biodiversity" - article here https://t.co/UucLhxcPga 🐶🧬🐶

[Stop Gene Drives @StopGeneDrives]

As all delegates gather today for the opening of the @UNBiodiversity #COP15 meetings we would like to remind them that over 150 NGOs from all around the world - many of them present here in Montreal and having followed the negotiations for years demand a #genedrivemoratorium 🛑🌍

[Stop Gene Drives @StopGeneDrives]

🌱The voices from the civil society attending meetings in preparation of the #COP15 on #biodiversity can be "heard" here https://t.co/on7JcYLyYP🤓🌍 Today's edition talks about the need for the #precautionaryprinciple in relation to new technologies 🧬#genedrives #ForNature

[ETC Group @ETC_Group]

1/ What is technology assessment and why is it important at #COP15? As preliminary meetings of the #OEWG prior to the @CBD_COP15 from Dec 7-19 get underway for the creation of a #GlobalBiodiversityFramework, we explain what is at stake: