People from around the world are invited to make submissions and let the New Zealand authorities know what they think about genetically engineered trees. Genetic engineering involves inserting genes into one species from other unrelated organisms, for example genes from animals into plants or even from humans into plants or animals. Genetic engineering creates unnatural recombinations for which there is no probability of natural progeny. While the resistance against genetic engineering is growing globally, people are refusing to eat GE food, scientists getting more and more critical and some of the concerns of environmental groups turn into reality, multinational corporations and governments around the world ignore the demands from the majority of the public and continue to develop and release genetically engineered plants. But while the market for GE agricultural crops is in decline, some corporations have started to develop genetically engineered trees.
Trees are one of the biggest, oldest and most complex organisms on the planet.