Dear
friends,
Colombia's Amazon has become a wild west for
environmental destruction -- criminal
loggers and coca
growers are swarming in and destroying everything in
their path!
The government insists there's only
small scale deforestation. But
Avaaz members just paid
for stunning satellite image research that shows it's actually
*worse than ever*.We have to stop this secret
attack on the Amazon!
With elections looming,
this
is the moment to shoot this investigation to the top of the
political agenda and make it a massive story in the
national press. When a million of us join,
Avaaz will
demand presidential candidates take a pledge to protect the
Amazon and stop deforestation: Click to stop the secret attack on the AmazonThe
Amazon is critical to our planet's environmental resilience --
and produces almost a quarter of the oxygen we breathe! The
Brazilian Amazon is more famous than Colombia's, but it's all
a part of the same complex, magical ecosystem --
and
this secret attack is a serious
threat.
The upcoming elections mean
that President Santos is vulnerable to influence on this
issue. In 2016, he pushed for one of the most ambitious
protection plans for the Amazon -- a transnational corridor --
and committed to reaching zero net deforestation by
2020. But he's not on track to achieve either
promise.
That gives us our
chance to turn the Colombian citizen legal complaint
into a political powder-keg that could force Santos to
act. When a million of us sign, Avaaz will place a
giant digital counter showing the signature count right in
front of the Presidential House, and create a national
media storm impossible for Santos to
ignore. Click to stop the secret attack on the Amazon