Take Action: Bush Plan Threatens Amazon Rainforest!

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Friends of the Earth

Take Action: Bush Plan Threatens Amazon Rainforest!

 

http://action.foe.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=5183

 

Dear Friend:

 

Right now, the Bush administration is pushing Congress to approve a free

trade agreement that will put the Amazon rainforest on the chopping block.

The Peru Free Trade Agreement will promote harmful trade and allow

large-scale illegal logging in the rainforest. Tell Congress to protect the

Amazon.

 

The Amazon rainforest in Peru is threatened by the widespread illegal

logging of mahogany, an endangered species that is central to the rainforest

ecosystem. Logging is destroying critical forest habitat for the giant river

otter and other endangered species, and indigenous workers are often coerced

into forced labor in illegal logging operations. Most of the timber

harvested from the rainforest is exported to the United States in violation

of an international agreement on trade in endangered species. The Peru Free

Trade Agreement will do nothing to halt this illegal logging and destruction

of the rainforest.

 

Congress will consider the agreement this fall. Now is the time to stop this

anti-environmental agreement and save the rainforest! Let your senators and

representatives know that you don’t want Congress to trade away the

rainforest. Take action and send a letter today!

 

Thank you.

 

 

Lisa Grob

Online Communications Manager

Friends of the Earth

http://action.foe.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=5183