Dear friends,
Half the Earth's forests are now gone.
15 BILLION trees are chopped down every
year -- 476 every
single second. That's our
rainforests, jungles, and woodlands being decimated to make
space for ever more cattle, palm oil, and soybeans.
But today we have
a unique
opportunity to change it.
Right now the
EU is considering
a new law to ban any products linked
to deforestation. If the law passes, the EU is such a
massive market that it could force the world's biggest
companies to change, transforming the global supply chain, and
helping to save our woodlands, wetlands, and
mangroves.
Earth needs this law --
so let's make sure it passes!
This is not a usual petition.
You'll be signing an official EU consultation. Every voice
counts. Every signature builds the resolve of lawmakers to
pass the most ambitious forest-protecting law possible. Let's
be deafening.
Click to add your voice and forward to
everyone you can: I support the forest-saving law
Deforestation was serious a decade ago -- now it's a
planetary emergency.
Forests provide our oxygen, they
protect the climate, and are home to 80% of land-based
life. And yet they're being totally destroyed.
But now
we could finally have a law to save
the trees! This new bill could ban the
sale of forest-killing products across the EU, cutting the
huge profits made from the destruction of woodlands,
rainforests, and trees that have stood for centuries, and
setting a global precedent.
So let's win it! For
the jungles, the jaguars, the orangutans, the gorillas, and
millions of people who live in the world's forests -- and for
every time you've ever looked up at a tree in wonder --
add your name to the official consultation
now: I support the forest-saving law
Together our movement
has led the race to save Earth’s precious forests. From
standing with Amazon communities fighting to protect their
home from illegal cattle ranchers, to crowdfunding the
purchase of a rainforest in Indonesia -- now let's come
together again, and help break the consumer supply chain
that's destroying that last forests on Earth.
With
fierce hope and determination,
Spyro, Mike, Nana K,
Nick, Martyna, Anneke, Adela, Luis and the whole team at Avaaz
MORE INFORMATION
The Together4Forests
campaign
https://together4forests.eu/
Biggest food brands 'failing goals to banish palm oil
deforestation' (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/17/biggest-food-brands-failing-goals-to-banish-palm-oil-deforestation
Nestle, P&G say they will miss 2020 deforestation
goals (Reuters)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-consumer-goods-deforestation/nestle-pg-say-they-will-miss-2020-deforestation-goals-idUKKBN1WC1WC
Earth Lost Half Its Trees to Humans (Live
Science)
https://www.livescience.com/52070-global-tree-census-human-impacts.html
Tackling tropical deforestation: The need for EU
leadership (Euractiv)
https://www.euractiv.com/section/biomass/opinion/tackling-tropical-deforestation-the-need-for-eu-leadership/
Planting Trees Is Good. Eliminating Deforestation Is
Better (Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/08/planting-trees-is-good-eliminating-deforestation-is-better/
