Urgent: Help stop a road thru Chile's rainforest - Action needed before June 5th

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Dear BioGems Defender,

 

We are writing to ask for your urgently needed help to

protect the Olivillo coastal rainforest in southern Chile,

the most fragile and threatened portion of South America's

only temperate evergreen rainforest. This Tuesday, June 5th,

the Chilean government will decide whether to proceed with a

roadbuilding project that would open vast stretches of the

forest to logging, or to look for alternatives that would

spare this biological treasure.

 

Please take a moment to visit NRDC's BioGems website at

http://www.savebiogems.org/watchlist/ and click on 'Save

this Wildland' to send a message to Chile's minister of

foreign relations and a senator who is the road's main

proponent, encouraging them to cancel the road and protect

the Olivillo coastal forest.

 

Earlier this year, pressure from BioGems Defenders helped

stop Boise-Cascade from building a chip mill that would have

devastated this area. BioGems Defenders also helped persuade

the Chilean government to postpone construction of the

southern coastal road during a two-month review period,

which is now coming to an end.

 

We know you've taken action on behalf of other Latin

American BioGems (and we thank you), so we know you care

about preserving and protecting fragile ecosystems in this

part of the world. We are sure we can win this battle if

enough of you write to Chile's decisionmakers by June 4th.

 

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/watchlist/ and send

your message *today*.

 

With our sincerest thanks,

 

Ari Hershowitz

NRDC Latin American BioGems Initiative

 

Francisco Solis Germani

Coalition for the Coastal Range, Chile

 

 

 

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