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Sign petition to prevent destruction of Brazil’s Amazon
photo credit: Ricardo Lisboa (350.org on Flickr CC)
Sign this petition to urge Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to veto the proposed law that would open up new areas to deforestation and provide amnesty to landowners who have previously cleared forestland illegally.
This new law could result in the destruction of an area of Amazon rainforest equivalent to the size of France and the UK put together.
Patrick Cunningham of the Indigenous People’s Cultural Support Trust is quoted in the Guardian:
The changes will overturn a law which even Brazil’s military dictatorship didn’t dare to challenge, and will be an abrogation of the country’s laudable and longstanding commitment to protection of the fragile rainforest environment.
With the Rio+20 Earth Summit 2012 just over a month away and close to 80% of Brazilians against the bill, President Rousseff has more than enough reasons to stand up to the powerful agricultural lobby and reject this bill.
Sign the petition to save the Brazilian Amazon today.
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yes I did sign the petition..it’s not only the Brazilians concern to protect the Amazon we all have to…..the world is not to be enjoyed by those few whose concern focuses on a one way direction which all heading towards them, We all have the say and rights to enjoy it responsibly and protect it from those who will threaten and affect its greatness to be experienced by the next generation…