Nearly two million people have signed a petition calling for a veto of the Forestry Code
A petition with nearly two million signatures will be delivered this Friday at the Palácio do Planalto in Brasília, to press the President of Brazil, Dilma Roussef, to protect the Amazon, announced the global organisation Avaaz.
The petition, which received support from former Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva and the Brazilian Director Fernando Meirelles, make Rousseff which allows Forestry Code vete deforestation by loggers and farmers.
The petition will be delivered to Gleisi Hoffmann, Minister-Chief of staff, Gilberto Carvalho, Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, and Izabella Teixeira, Minister of the environment, the only 12:0 am deadline for the veto of the Bill.
Launched on 11 may in conjunction with the World Wide Fund for nature (WWF), Greenpeace and two major nature protection organizations, the petition has grown at a rate of 50 thousand signatures per day over the past two weeks, "said Avaaz.
This organization is dedicated to conducting campaigns through the Internet and has 14 million members, of whom 1.5 million in Brazil.
In addition to collecting signatures, the Avvaz encouraged people to call to the Brazilian embassies around the world to express concern over the issue, which has motivated manifestations of environmentalists in Brazil.
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