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TAKE ACTION NOW! Stop Deforestation in Indonesia
Environment  (tags: deforestation, environment, destruction, agriculture, habitatdestruction, habitat, green, humans, world, protection, nature, government, ecosystems, trees, forests )

Cal
- 20 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Agribusiness and pulp and paper industries accused of triggering one of the century's greatest ecological disasters in Indonesia. Please sign this,, my first petition ever at Care2, to help stop this horrible destruction!
216 comments
Save The Santa Rita Mountains ACTION
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, cyanide mountain, Tucson, Santa Rita Mts, mining, Augusta Research Corp, Canada, ecosystems, habitatdestruction )

Nancy
- 170 days ago - scenicsantaritas.org
What does a small town in Sardinia, Italy have in common with the pitched battle over the proposed Rosemont Copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson?
86 comments
Save Our Vanishing Coral Reefs ACTION
Environment  (tags: coral reefs, endangered, ecosystems, environment, habitatdestruction, habitat, protection )

Nancy
- 163 days ago - action.biologicaldiversity.org
Our coral reefs are in trouble, and the proposal from the federal government to protect 66 corals under the Endangered Species Act is a wakeup call on the urgency of this crisis.
88 comments
Petition | Greenpeace | No Super Trawlers. Not Here. Not Anywhere.
Environment  (tags: wildlife, water, ocean, australia, marine, fish, trawler, vessel, ship, habitat, protection, nature, environment, ecosystems, conservation, greeanpeace )

Jutta
- 295 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Giant fishing vessels known as super trawlers are pushing our oceans into an urgent crisis. Tell the Prime Minister to ban super trawlers from Australian waters!
117 comments
TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell the U.S. Forest Service to Protect America's Rainforest!
Environment  (tags: trees, ecosystems, environment, Tongass, activism, destruction, conservation, humans, animals, habitat, habitatdestruction, green, government )

Cal
- 54 days ago - act.alaskawild.org
With over half of the 'great giants' of the Tongass felled, we need you to weigh in on a plan that would protect the remaining old-growth forest for good.
81 comments
TAKE ACTION NOW! Glacier Park: Don't Give Concessions Contract to Billionaire Fracking Just Outside the Park
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, environment, conservation, humans, politics, wildlife )

Cal
- 96 days ago - signon.org
Do not award a lucrative concessions contract for Glacier National Park to billionaire Phil Anschutz while he is threatening the future of the park with his fracking on abutting land.
91 comments
TAKE ACTION NOW! Ecuador - Don't Auction the Amazon for Oil
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, ecosystems, nature, world, habitat, habitatdestruction, conservation )

Cal
- 158 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The enormous biodiversity of Ecuador's forests is under constant threat from the oil industry. The sell-off also threatens the lives and culture of the country's indigenous people.
89 comments
Send a Message to IKEA's CEO ACTION
Environment  (tags: Ikea, forests, Russia, climatechange, ecosystems, environment, tax, habitatdestruction, wildlife, humans, oceans, trees, globalwarming, money )

Nancy
- 150 days ago - sumofus.org
The roar of a chainsaw shatters the peaceful calm of the Karelia forest in Northwestern Russia. A logger carves into an exquisite giant -- a 600-year-old tree -- with expert precision. Within minutes, he has masterfully sliced through tree rings, added the
67 comments
TAKE ACTION NOW! HELP SAVE THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, environment, endangered, Great Barrier Reef, destruction, world, wildlife, protection, pollution, oceans, politics )

Cal
- 146 days ago - getup.org.au
Please join tens of thousands of Australians and add your name to the petition for the Great Barrier Reef:
73 comments
American Electric Power Agrees to Retire Three Coal-Fired Power Plants
Environment  (tags: pollution, healthconditions, ecosystems, US, coal fired plants, protection )

Nancy
- 94 days ago - earthjustice.org
Collectively, a total of 2,011 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired power will retire as part of the settlement, removing almost 12 million tons of climate-disrupting carbon pollution and nearly 84,000 tons of sulfur dioxide pollution that the three coal-fired ~
33 comments
TAKE ACTION NOW! Save the Amazon Rainforest
Environment  (tags: Anazon, biodiversity, resources, medicine, environment, destruction, conservation, ecosystems, habitat, habitatdestruction, green, protection, humans, nature, government, world, wildlife, water, trees )

Cal
- 316 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Please sign this petition to say that you're ready to save our rainforests! Please help protect the biodiversity and peoples who support these vital :lungs of the Earth: and their abundant resources from deforestation and corporate greed.
89 comments
TAKE ACTION NOW! Save Sault Ste Marie Wetlands
Environment  (tags: environment, wetlands, protection, habitat, habitatdestruction, environment, ecosystems, humans, politics, pollution, water, nature, conservation )

Cal
- 129 days ago - ipetitions.com
Stop the destruction of 100 acres of pristine wetland in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan and take a stand against development that ignores our environment, our provincial regulations, and the facts from an environmental hydro-geologist study.
87 comments
Implore President Obama to End Climate Appeasement By Supporting a Carbon Tax ACTION
Environment  (tags: climatechange, ecosystems, environment, tax, habitatdestruction, wildlife, humans, oceans, trees, globalwarming, money )

Nancy
- 214 days ago - climateark.org
Abrupt climate change will not be appeased, but it can be taxed, and thus reduced, through first a national and eventually a global carbon tax.
60 comments
TAKE ACTION NOW! Stop the Monsanto Protection Act!
Environment  (tags: Monsanto, politics, humans, pesticides, protection, habitat, environment, destruction, ecosystems, conservation )

Cal
- 355 days ago - action.fooddemocracynow.org
Once again, Monsanto and the biotech industry are working behind closed doors to undermine your basic rights. This time they've gone too far! Join us in putting a stop to the Monsanto Protection Act!
86 comments
 
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