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Dear friends,
It's
horrifying -- in the past year, an area the size of 500,000
soccer fields has been destroyed in the Amazon!
Nearly half a BILLION trees torn down and gone...
forever.
This is how they do it: armed militia swarm
into protected areas, and indigenous leaders who stand up to
them are murdered. There’s even stories of planes dropping
gasoline to start massive forest fires. And Brazil's
far-right President Bolsonaro is making it even worse
by stripping the Amazon of its remaining
protections!
Right now, Amazon champions in Brazil’s
Congress are considering sweeping new protections for the
precious rainforest. And indigenous groups are calling for
international support to ramp up pressure to defend their
home.
Let’s build a massive call of citizens
from around the world to protect the forest -- when
it's huge, allies will deliver our voices to Congress in each
key moment to silence the chainsaws and stop this Amazon
apocalypse!
Click to save the Amazon
Bolsonaro has
praised forest killers, blocked money for key conservation
programs and threatened to evict entire indigenous communities
from their lands. And if we don’t stop it, it’s not just the
forest we’ll lose. It could be everything. The Amazon breathes
in and stores massive amounts of carbon -- and without it,
there’s no chance of stopping the climate
crisis.
Members of the Brazilian Congress
are about to introduce proposals that
could bring illegal deforestation in Brazil to ZERO,
and key indigenous leaders are calling on the world to support
the defence of the forest. We can help them!
The Amazon
needs us right now. Add your name, and share widely to
end the Amazon apocalypse before it’s too late. Once enough of
us sign, we'll throw everything at saving the forest
-- demonstrating of huge public support, polling, hard-hitting
ads, and pressure on key governments around the world to break
their silence:
Click to save the Amazon
Just years ago, when
Brazil wanted to put a chunk of the Amazon the size of Denmark
up for sale, 1.9 million Avaazers worldwide stood up for it
and WE WON! Now the threat is even bigger... So we need to
fight harder, smarter and stronger than ever for the
Amazon!
With hope and determination,
Diego,
Bert, Laura, Andrew, Mel, Nana, Luis and the rest of the Avaaz
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