STOP OPEN CAST MINING IN THE SANWILD WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

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Department of Minerals and Energy, SOUTH AFRICA

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A permit was granted by the Department of Minerals and Energy in South Africa to Maranda Mining Company (Pty) Ltd to start open cast mining in a protected wildlife sanctuary.

The SanWild Wildlife Trust needs your help to ensure the welfare and continued protection of many endangered plants and animals in the sanctuary. Please sign this petition asap so that it can be forwarded to the Department of Minerals and Energy in South Africa.

We the undersigned herewith request that you immediately suspend and cancel permit number 63/2006 (Reference number LP30/5/1/3/2/78MP) issued to Maranda Mining Pty Ltd.

We have been informed that due process was not followed to obtain this permit to do open cast mining in the SanWild Wildlife Sanctuary that is home to many endangered species of fauna and flora.

We know that a public consultation process was not followed and that Maranda Mining did not consult with the legal occupier of the land.

The information contained in their EMP is misleading and factually incorrect. We therefore urge you to immediately cancel the permit and to follow the due process should Maranda Mining choose to reapply for a mining permit.

We are of the opinion that should you have been presented with the true facts, you would not have issued a permit to mine in a protected wildlife reserve that is home to endangered, orphaned, rescued, traumatised and misplaced wild animals.

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# 768:

7:27 am PDT, Sep 6, Angela Rhodes, Greece

# 767:

10:53 pm PDT, Sep 3, Denise Glass, California

# 766:

9:26 am PDT, Sep 1, Lana Castle, Texas
Please save the elephants. Their numbers are decreasing much too rapidly, and they need your help.

# 765:

9:31 pm PDT, Aug 31, Bette Pritchett, Texas
We cannot disturb these wonderful creatures. They too have a right to roam the Earth undisturbed. Please find another way to do the mineral work.

# 764:

8:12 pm PDT, Aug 31, Linda Adair, Texas
Tourism to view the animals and sactuary will bring in money. The minerals can be left in place and saved for the future. Perhaps a new method of mining will be developed which is not destructive.

# 763:

7:23 pm PDT, Aug 31, Marian Earnest, New York
Theis is totally unacceptable! Respect all of our natural resources.

# 762:

6:40 pm PDT, Aug 31, Dana Lockler, Texas

# 761:

6:34 pm PDT, Aug 31, Anita Earnest, Texas
PLEASE, PLEASE save the rescued wild South African Animals. SanWild is a wonderful resource in that country. The miners have been cutting locks and doing what they want to do anyway WITHOUT the benefit of proper permission.

# 760:

8:06 am PDT, Aug 21, Asli Gedik, Germany

# 759:

8:05 am PDT, Aug 18, Srishti Kapoor, India

# 758:

8:29 pm PDT, Aug 12, Sherri Bessire, Texas

# 757:

9:37 pm PDT, Aug 10, Kimberly Chandler, Illinois

# 756:

8:16 am PDT, Aug 7, Name not displayed, Bulgaria

# 755:

3:47 pm PDT, Aug 3, Name not displayed, Greece
Respect for every kind of life.

# 754:

7:46 pm PDT, Aug 2, Laurel Watson, Arizona

# 753:

9:47 pm PDT, Jul 30, Andi A, New York

# 752:

1:24 am PDT, Jul 28, Austin Kendall, Florida

# 751:

1:25 am PDT, Jul 25, Kate Els, South Africa

# 750:

1:50 pm PDT, Jul 23, Elizabeth Janet Saracki, New York
DO IT!!!!!!!!!!

# 749:

12:32 pm PDT, Jul 23, Daphne Boyd, California

# 748:

2:20 am PDT, Jul 22, Gabrielle Pennay, Australia

# 747:

12:39 am PDT, Jul 21, Bert Witte, Netherlands
To continue protection of animals and many endangered plants in a Wildlife Sanctuary, stop open cast mining by Maranda Mining Company (Pty) Ltd. It would defy any logic not to do so. Please reconsider.

# 746:

10:13 pm PDT, Jul 20, Justice McDonald, Washington

# 745:

6:26 pm PDT, Jul 19, Sabrina Collodi, Florida

# 744:

8:07 am PDT, Jul 19, Donna-lee Ginsberg, South Africa

# 743:

6:17 am PDT, Jul 19, Vickie Lyon, Texas
Please revoke the permit to mine in a protected wildlife reserve that is home to endangered, orphaned, rescued, traumatised and misplaced wild animals. Thank you

# 742:

4:23 am PDT, Jul 19, Laura Portalupi, Ohio

# 741:

12:10 am PDT, Jul 16, Vanessa Schempers, South Africa

# 740:

4:33 am PDT, Jul 15, Sacha Burns, South Africa
When is it going to stop? How many must suffer for the sake of greed? Unfortunately animals cant speak for themselves - if they could what do you think they would say? Please stop destroying our beautiful country for the sake of lining your pockets.

# 739:

3:35 pm PDT, Jul 14, Robin Robinson, Ohio

# 738:

8:38 pm PDT, Jul 12, Lisa Liska, Canada

# 737:

11:03 am PDT, Jul 11, Mary Jane Glaser, Tennessee
Please help protect some of the greatest gifts we have been given. Nature has blessed us with an abundance of wonderful animals with the elephant being one on the most majestic.

# 736:

7:25 am PDT, Jul 11, Shelley Andrews, California
Please stop mining in this area.

# 735:

7:56 am PDT, Jul 9, Name not displayed, South Africa

# 734:

2:21 pm PDT, Jul 3, Marc Dumont, South Africa
Why do people feel the need to mess with things of such importance? Just let it be! for christ sakes!

# 733:

2:16 pm PDT, Jul 3, Kirstie Shepherd, South Africa
humans dont have the right to take away the homes of many animals, it is very selfish and mean.

# 732:

2:44 am PDT, Jul 3, Billiotte Nathalie, France

# 731:

1:19 am PDT, Jul 2, Adele Wright, South Africa

# 730:

1:53 pm PDT, Jul 1, Sue Harper, Canada
Please stop open cast mining in this area. You have a natural treasure around you that deserves protection from such activities.

# 729:

2:35 pm PDT, Jun 30, Maria Pevere, Italy

# 728:

5:48 am PDT, Jun 30, Sandi Churchyard, South Africa

# 727:

11:38 am PDT, Jun 29, Taryn Patten, South Africa

# 726:

1:04 am PDT, Jun 29, Name not displayed, South Africa

# 725:

10:04 pm PDT, Jun 27, Alixandria Key, Australia
Please don't let this precious land be raped by greedy miners

# 724:

11:05 am PDT, Jun 25, Roxanne Boyd, Washington
The Sanwild Wildlife Park needs to have a safe and hazerdus free enviroment to try and save the animals. Their habitat is already comprimised. Can we not share the earth and have a sanctuary for other living creatures? This mining must stop. There are other areas to mine!

# 723:

9:14 pm PDT, Jun 24, Lauren Levine, California

# 722:

9:59 pm PDT, Jun 23, Daniel O'Neil, Missouri
Please halt all mining related activities in or near SanWild sanctuary. This area is a renowned and valuable refuge and a precious resource to the wildlife within its protected borders as well as concerned people the world over. Allowing the sanctity of this refuge to be violated is an act that cannot be tolerated. Please correct this violation immediately.

# 721:

6:06 am PDT, Jun 23, Desiree Naidoo, South Africa

# 720:

3:41 am PDT, Jun 23, Deon Naidoo, South Africa
Wildlife locations are so limited as it is yet we continue to invade them. Lets change our attitude from an inhumane society with little regard for life to a compassionate and more caring one

# 719:

8:07 am PDT, Jun 22, Ryan Lewis, Pennsylvania

# 718:

4:46 am PDT, Jun 22, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
Disgusting to even think this can happen at Sanwild sancuary.

# 717:

12:16 pm PDT, Jun 21, Christine Hurrey, Arizona
My God, must greed and avarice ALWAYS take precedence over the care of those less powerful, less able to stand up to companies with dollar signs in their eyes. These animals have finally found a place of safety, of care and love and protection. Are they not entitled to have met their basic needs for life and security? Must mankind always put wealth in front of welfare? SanWild is, at last, a sanctuary for those wonderful animals who have already been hurt by mankind. Please let them continue to find peace and safety where people love and care about them and stop the greed. Truly, enough is enough.

# 716:

1:07 am PDT, Jun 20, Michelle Beneke, South Africa
Please stop letting money destroy our planet. One day there will be so much money and no life.

# 715:

1:14 pm PDT, Jun 19, Katie Timmins, United Kingdom
I have volunteered at SanWild! It would be a disaster to allow this mining to take place!

# 714:

4:30 am PDT, Jun 19, Linda Tucker, California
I do not care to spend my tourist dollars in a country that does not place protection of it's native animals and plant life as a priority!

# 713:

2:35 am PDT, Jun 19, Name not displayed, South Africa
This is unacceptable, nuff said.

# 712:

8:12 pm PDT, Jun 18, Victoria Blachman, Texas
Every vacation of mine is spent in Africa enjoying your wonderful people and wildlife. Please protect areas dedicated to the preservation of wildlife such as SanWild Wildife Trust and continue to encourage ecotourism and alternate avenues of income for the people of Africa.

# 711:

9:18 am PDT, Jun 18, Name not displayed, California
It is a tragedy what we are doing to the balance of nature. That very balance is so necessary to our own survival. Please do not allow any mining in our protected wildernesses. We have so little that we have put aside to try to preserve our world and our own quality of life.

# 710:

4:08 am PDT, Jun 18, Paula Rodrigues, Portugal
We are losting already so many important and precious thins in our beautifull planet, please don't destroy this as well. Animals are sacred and deserve to have their own space, wich is theirs the first place.

# 709:

10:51 pm PDT, Jun 17, Leah Miller, Florida

# 708:

5:54 pm PDT, Jun 17, Dennis Lewin, California
Stop letting corporations rape our planet.

# 707:

5:18 pm PDT, Jun 17, Gloria Prince Cabot, Oregon
Good grief! Please let these magnificent creatures have their safe, nurturing environment in the SanWild Sanctuary, undisturbed by mining. It is the right thing (The compassionate thing!) to do for them. Sincerely, Gloria Cabot

# 706:

2:41 pm PDT, Jun 17, Jessica Martinek, Texas
LIFE is more important than the extra money a man can make. Human LIFE, Animal LIFE, Plant LIFE. If we do not respect our WILDLIFE, how can we truly respect ourselves? We have destroyed this beautiful world enough. It's time to rebuild. Don't let this happen. Please.

# 705:

10:23 pm PDT, Jun 16, Georgina Munoz, Florida

# 704:

7:53 pm PDT, Jun 16, Kit Brooking, Texas

# 703:

7:41 pm PDT, Jun 16, Fran Adams, Texas

# 702:

4:46 pm PDT, Jun 16, R. Barcilon, Florida
I care deeply about the welfare of wildlife and am disheartened by their diminishing numbers. Please I urge you to protect this small herd of elephants. Already they've been traumatized by the move. Blasting would only lead to their destruction. If we don't take measures to save what little wildlife remains then they will be gone forever in the very close future.

# 701:

4:32 pm PDT, Jun 16, W Kerner, California
Profits MUST NOT dictate whether or not nature and animals survive. Please help protect the elephants!

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