The Amazon is spoken of as being the lungs of the earth - twenty percent of our oxygen comes from this forest. Lumiere Charity received an email from Luis and the Avaaz team asking us to support the safety of this vital forest. They highlight a situation which is close to the Charity's heart - that of conservation of the beauties of the earth God created for us to exercise stewardship over.
Luis and the Avaaz team apprise a forestry bill has been passed that gives free rein to loggers and farmers to cut down huge swathes of the Amazon. Avaaz has an urgent petition to stop the chainsaws.
The petition will be presented by Avaaz shortly. Please sign the urgent petition and send this to everyone you know. Please send the information on to your family, friends and colleagues, and post the link on to your Facebook and share it on Twitter.
Let us hold hands together in our global village and save the wonderful world our God has made.
Here is the petition; http://www.avaaz.org/en/veto_dilma_global/?vl
The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming apprises that the Amazon rainforest is a critical influence on the South American climate and one of the world's most important carbon banks. It is home to twenty percent of the world's animal and plant species, and plays a crucial part in the precipitation cycle of South America, pumping oxygen into the atmosphere. *
Avaaz; http://mainstreetags.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/avaaz-org-stop-the-amazon-chainsaw-massacre%E2%80%8F-petition/
* http://globalwarming.house.gov/impactzones/amazon
The wondrous plant life of the Amazon, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igkjcuw_n_U
Ants create a lifeboat in the Amazon, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A042J0IDQK4&feature=relmfu
*Photograph taken by Catherine Nicolette - please feel free to use copyright free for any worthy purpose
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