Police have raided Greenpeace's Sydney headquarters, seizing evidence relating to last week's destruction of a genetically-modified wheat experiment.

Greenpeace activists are said to have scaled a fence at CSIRO's Ginninderra Experiment Station and destroyed $300,000 worth of genetically modified wheat last Thursday. The incident sparked an investigation by ACT Policing, and officers spent about two hours yesterday searching Greenpeace Pacific's Sydney offices for evidence.

While we may still get something out of the experiment, the main function has been compromised as a result of the damage, said Jeremy Burdon, chief of the division of Plant Industry at CSIRO. That puts us back a year in the program.

For an organisation that claims to be dedicated to the protection of the environment, this is an unconscionable act, said Suzanne Cory, president of the Australian Academy of Science.

Anna-Maria Arabia, head of the scientific advocacy group Science and Technology Australia, echoed these views, arguing that destroying research that provides answers to important questions affecting our health and safety is counterproductive and insults scientists who undertake their work professionally, with integrity, and without fear or favour.

To shut down a scientific trial by effectively destroying the laboratory it is conducted in is deplorable, undemocratic, and will not give us answers to important questions raised in this area of research, added Arabia.

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