TAKE ACTION
Dear Friends,
The Amazon rainforest regulates our weather system and is vital to maintaining Earth's fragile balance. It also houses one-third of the planet's animal and plant species and produces one-fifth of its flowing fresh water. For indigenous inhabitants and for our global climate, the Amazon must be protected.
The movement is growing and now our friends at Sierra Club have joined the call. Will you stand with the people and wildlife of Ecuador to save the Amazon from devastation of oil drilling?
As many of you know, the Pope traveled to Ecuador this week and spoke out strongly in favor of protecting the Amazon. "The tapping of natural resources, which are so abundant in Ecuador, must not be concerned with short-term benefits," he said while speaking before a group that included indigenous people of the Amazon.
Yet Ecuador's President Correa is attempting to open over ten million acres of pristine rainforest to oil drilling against the will of indigenous people who call the Amazon home. This area includes Yasuní National Park, home to Ecuador's last communities living in voluntary isolation and one of the most biodiverse places on Earth.
Over one million people have already stood up to save Ecuador's threatened rainforests — please join them and echo the Pope's call by sending your message to President Rafael Correa!
For the Amazon,
Paul Paz y Miño
Director of Outreach and Online Strategy
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