- Signatures: 4,399
- Goal: 5,000
- Deadline: 12-5-2003
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Please help protect the sacred ancestral lands of the indigenous Kichwa people in the Amazon Rainforest from Oil Company destruction. We are a traditional people that live in harmony with the huge animal and plant biodiversity that surounds us. Our land has never before been mined, lumbered or exploited and we need your support in keeping it intact for the future generations. Your signature will help us greatly in gaining support for our defense.
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | Why am I signing this petition? | Any additional comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,410 | 5:41 pm PST, Nov 11 | vannini laurent | Nous perdons peu à peu le lien avec la terre en la violant chaque jour plus profondément, nous perdons peu à peu le lien avec nous même, nous tuons de l'éternel pour fabriquer de l'immédiat, de l'instantané, de l'éphèmère et la terre le devient à son tour, enfin, nous perdons peu à peu le sens des valeurs vitales en transformant des terres de vie, animale, végétale et humaine, en terres de production industrielle et agricole. | ||
| 4,409 | 11:03 am PDT, Oct 30 | georgie van der horst | Because It is so important to safe the great forests on earth, not just because we can't survive without them, but because we have this obligation to all living creatures | ||
| 4,408 | 6:34 pm PDT, Oct 27 | Anonymous | The oil stays in the ground. | ||
| 4,407 | 1:46 pm PDT, Oct 27 | Mr. | Ned Martin | ||
| 4,406 | 12:19 pm PDT, Oct 20 | Ms. | Pamylle Greinke | ||
| 4,405 | 12:02 pm PDT, Oct 20 | Mrs. | Ronel Duvenage | ||
| 4,404 | 11:49 am PDT, Oct 20 | Paul Westmerland | We Must Work in Harmony with Nature Mother Earth Gives us ALL we need to have a Wonderful Life But we cannot keep taking - balance is necessary. The Peoples - Animals - Plants of the Rainforest must be protected and de-forestation reversed. | ||
| 4,403 | 3:24 am PDT, Oct 13 | Ms. | mayah . | I love the mother earth, love animals and plants, I love the Amazon. I want to help to save the real world, not the material world that we are destroying | |
| 4,402 | 2:39 pm PDT, Oct 11 | Anonymous | Just so people will realize how many people care for the rainforest. | Destruction of rainforest is a result of greed! One of the seven deadly sins. I don't care about sins but greed is like a disease that will consume you before you realize what you have done, and are going to do. | |
| 4,401 | 5:46 pm PDT, Oct 5 | Anonymous | because i care about the earth, the rainforests, and the animals. i want them to STOP!!!!!! | i hope they stop -_- | |
| 4,400 | 12:25 pm PDT, Oct 5 | Ian Stibbe | Joining the movement to stop the reckless destruction of our natural resources and native communities for corporate profit margins. | Stop the consumerism and greed, support those who support themselves, back to the land that pacha mama has given us. | |
| 4,399 | 4:56 pm PDT, Aug 25 | Janire Sagarna | Para que cesen las petroleras en la Selva Amazonica | Señor Correa, en cuanto las petroleras consigan todo lo que quieren de ti, no vas a ver los beneficios que tu esperas conseguir. Lo unico que verás es la atrocidad que has permitido que el país más opresor actualmente ha destrozado la selva. Y esa selva no es tuya!! Sino de los indigenas y las indigenas ecuatorianas que llevan viviendo en dicho preciosos lugar desde siempre. | |
| 4,398 | 5:26 am PDT, Aug 24 | Ms. | Christiane Henker | ||
| 4,397 | 9:05 am PDT, Jun 15 | Mrs. | Kollmaier Margit | Ich finde es genial und bemerkenswert wie die Menschen in Sarayacu für ihr Leben und vor allem für die Natur kämpfen, das sollte uns allen ein Vorbild sein! | Lo encuentro ingenioso y notable como las personas en Sarayacu para su vida y sobre todo a luchar por la naturaleza, esto debía ser a nosotros a todos un modelo! |
| 4,396 | 11:59 am PDT, Jun 14 | Anonymous | It is simply not right. Taking this oil destroys the rainforest which belongs the people, the Sarayacu Kichwa Community and nobody else. | Oil is killing people. Not just because of wars also because of what the big entreprises tried in the home of Sarayacu. If you take the land of these beautiful people, you take their culture, their heritage, their home, their identity, their heart and much more than any CEO can imagine. Additionally, harming the green lungs also affects the whole world. Animals would lose their home as well. For what? Money... Let me tell, what a wise Indio once said: After taking all the forest, all the oil, all the land, all the natural treasures, all the animals these people will eventually understand, that you can't eat money. | |
| 4,395 | 8:25 am PDT, Jun 10 | Mr. | josé momblant | En Sarayacu existe de verdad una forma de vida sostenible. Se utilizan los recursos de la selva para vivir en ella de una manera agradable y cubriendo las necesidades de su población pero sin destruir la tierra y la naturaleza, sino todo lo contrario, ayudando a que se mantenga su biodiversidad. | Las petroleras y madereras en otros pueblos quichuas del norte de Ecuador solo han llevado violencia, prostitución, destrucción y contaminación de los recursos naturales y destrcción tambien de la cultura de sus pobladores |
| 4,394 | 9:40 am PDT, May 31 | Michael Melchizedek | This area of Ecuador is a Sacred Portal, an oasis of tranquility,love and peace a doorway to many dimensions. It must be protected at all costs. | So I encourage you all to old this light energy to help heal our planet Mother Earth. | |
| 4,393 | 5:24 am PDT, May 30 | Ellie oke | |||
| 4,392 | 1:42 pm PDT, May 20 | Ms. | Susan Tomlinson | Because we are all connected... | |
| 4,391 | 3:50 am PDT, May 17 | Mr. | Anonymous | I care about the nature! | ? |
| 4,390 | 6:43 am PDT, May 11 | Ms. | Anonymous | because i love the planet | |
| 4,389 | 8:30 am PDT, May 8 | Mrs. | Surdu Ana Maria | I saw your struggle in a french documentary two days ago. I learned about Patricia, her family and comuinity fight against these greedy politicians and business men that sell an entire country and have no faith. I know your pain because in my country happens the same. I sign and participate to stop the harm to your lands, culture, unity. | The destruction of amazonian forests affect you but also the entire world by changing the planet's climate and equilibrium. The weather apocalypse will come upon our planet if the amazonian forest is cut. Our future children will suffer and these killers should be stopped now. |
| 4,388 | 3:48 pm PDT, Apr 26 | Anonymous | Because i am currently doing a project about the rainforest, and i understand how much we need it and i know that it's detearating quickly and needs to be stoped. | no | |
| 4,387 | 6:37 pm PDT, Apr 4 | Constant Wanham | |||
| 4,386 | 2:06 pm PDT, Mar 26 | Ms. | Anonymous | ||
| 4,385 | 10:00 am PDT, Mar 26 | Mr. | Robert Banfitch | To protect Ecuador's sacred land. | |
| 4,384 | 4:31 am PDT, Mar 26 | Mr. | Carlos Carnero Peon | porque debemos conservar lo más preciado que tenemos, nuestro planeta, por encima de interés económicos de cualquier Ãndole u origen. Y porque debemos respetar las tierras donde viven indÃgenas en comunión con su entorno desde tiempos inmemoriales. | |
| 4,383 | 2:55 am PDT, Mar 26 | Mrs. | silvana acosta | Por dos razones: 1) Por que la destrucción del ecosistema, producida por los derramamientos de petróleo que a menudo suceden el la jungla ecuatoriana, es un daño irreparable a la naturaleza que no compensa la explotación temporal de un recurso cuyos ingresos benefician solamente a unos pocos. Vale agregar que estos pocos beneficiados nunca han sido siquiera, pobladores de estas zonas. 2) Por que no podemos quedarnos de brazos cruzados ante las injusticias cometidas contra los pueblos indígenas. La marginación de culturas ancestrales y los atentados cometidos contra sus miembros son crímenes en contra de la humanidad, frente a los cuales necesito expresar mi rechazo. | |
| 4,382 | 11:31 pm PDT, Mar 19 | Ms. | Amanda Taylor | ||
| 4,381 | 6:07 am PST, Mar 6 | Mr. | MICHEL BÉGIN | We must preserve our children's future and act in repairing disasters left by money makers with no hearts | Please visit The International Youth Association (Canada XXI) Inc at the following: www.association-internationale-jeunesse.com |
| 4,380 | 8:53 pm PST, Mar 2 | Anonymous | To protect the human rights of this community | ||
| 4,379 | 1:31 am PST, Feb 22 | Dr. | Nils-Olof Svensson | te Paren de destruir nuestra selva sagrada. El mantener la naturaleza traera un futuro mejor para todos. Cuiden la vida humana y respeten los pueblos indigenas. Los derechos humanos valen para todos. | |
| 4,378 | 4:23 am PST, Feb 18 | Kiri Barker | Because this destruction and greed must stop! | ||
| 4,377 | 7:19 pm PST, Feb 11 | Ms. | Nikki Parker | ||
| 4,376 | 9:29 am PST, Feb 10 | Anonymous | There is enough polution in the world. Let the forest people live their peaceful life !!! | ||
| 4,375 | 12:05 am PST, Feb 10 | Mr. | Anonymous | ||
| 4,374 | 11:25 am PST, Jan 30 | Ms. | Anonymous | because I'm a strong supporter in saving the rainforest and think we all need to do what we can stop the construction in the rainforests. | |
| 4,373 | 4:22 am PST, Jan 30 | Sanda Jovanovic | |||
| 4,372 | 6:37 am PST, Dec 18 | Mr. | Derek Gendvil | I would like to tell the Brazilan & the Amazon people to stop this forest destruction that has been plaguing the forests for many years. This is why the new Obama administration needs a plan to tell the Brazilan government to stop the deforestation once & for all because it's causing all of the CO2 levels & greenhouse gases to rise in this world. Please tell to save their forests before it gets any worse. | |
| 4,371 | 8:16 am PST, Dec 13 | Laura Tatti | |||
| 4,370 | 12:58 pm PST, Nov 26 | Ms. | Anonymous | because i think killing the rainfroest is wrong. | come on people help us save the rain forest |
| 4,369 | 6:14 pm PST, Nov 23 | Mr. | Daniel Osorio | ||
| 4,368 | 10:27 am PST, Nov 13 | Holly Bacon | Because I have been asked to take one action about Amazon deforestation for my geography homework and I thought this would be appropriate. | ||
| 4,367 | 10:26 am PST, Nov 11 | Ms. | Bérénice Crunel | La selva ecuatoriana es una de los mas ricos y antiguos ecosystemas del mundo, para que su pueblo pueda vivir libre y en paz, para proteger esta maravillosa ecologica, para sostener la lucha del pueblo de Sarayaku, para impedir que las fuerzas financieras y los lobbies petroleros destruyen lo que tenemos de más precioso... Porque la vida del pueblo Sarayaku vale mucho más que sus beneficios. | |
| 4,366 | 9:50 am PST, Nov 11 | Ms. | Taylor Dall | Because I love the rainforest. The rainforest is the most beautiful place in the world. We need it. | |
| 4,365 | 2:05 pm PDT, Oct 25 | Ms. | Anonymous | Je suis révoltée par le massacre des populations indigènes entraînée par la destruction de la forêt amazonienne. Ces horreurs et cette exploitation démente à des fins lucratives en faveur des pays "riches" est un scandale permanent, odieux et intolérable, un crime contre l'humanité. Comment peut-il perdurer ? | |
| 4,364 | 7:49 am PDT, Oct 11 | Mr. | david septier | For Life | |
| 4,363 | 8:50 am PDT, Oct 7 | Mr. | marvin leng | ||
| 4,362 | 8:22 am PDT, Oct 2 | Mr. | Jordan Balla | Elskusnúðurinn minn, mér finnst alveg hryggalegt hvenig folk er að fara við þessar náturulegu perlur sem við höfum. Höldumst í hendur og björgum þessum trjám sem allra fyrst. | |
| 4,361 | 1:16 am PDT, Oct 1 | Mr. | arvind dave | Rain forest is one of the most important and must be preserved at all costs. | |
| 4,360 | 1:31 pm PDT, Sep 29 | Kali Case-Leng | The voices of the community needs to be heard and more importantly listened to, not only by the multi-nationals but all as we all play a part in making a difference. One voice gets lost, many voices make a difference | ||
| 4,359 | 5:07 am PDT, Sep 29 | Mr. | James Watson | I recieved an emial from a friend of mine in south america who came upon this cause. And I understand the lethal edge of big businesses who have little time for humanitarian concerns over profits. | |
| 4,358 | 4:06 am PDT, Sep 29 | Mr. | Nick Case-Leng | The rights of native communities have been ignored by multinational companies whenever they can get away with it. | It is time that basic human rights as practised in wealthy countries were recognised for others in poor countries. It is not right to rape the assets of the third world and to cause irreparable damage to the environment. With a little less short-term profit (but greater long term) and with proper consultation and co-operation, economic gain for all can still be achieved without permanent damage. The oil companies should focus first on "trust", something they have not cared about. |
| 4,357 | 5:45 pm PDT, Sep 28 | Mr. | Frey Case-Leng | I hate the exploitation, greed and lack of care for life that define companies like CGC. I don't use this word often, but I truly see them as evil. | It's vital to conserve the rainforest and the communities that live within it. Money is not everthing and it's certainly not worth killing for. |
| 4,356 | 8:16 am PDT, Sep 27 | Mrs. | Nicole Kreutzfeldt | We have to care for the world we're living in! By destroying the rainforest we destroy the living place of millions of animals and the climate of the whole world! | why can't the humans just live in peace with the nature? Why does everything has to be destroyed in order to make money?? |
| 4,355 | 4:08 am PDT, Sep 24 | Brittany Browning | |||
| 4,354 | 8:29 am PDT, Sep 18 | Sigrid Lenz | |||
| 4,353 | 2:01 am PDT, Sep 18 | Lena Donat | Jedes Individuum und jedes Volk sollte das Recht haben, zu entscheiden, wie es leben will. Was könnte in dieser Welt wünschenswerter sein, als dass ein Volk wünscht, im Einklang mit der Natur zu leben? Den Sarayaku sollte diese Möglichkeit nicht verwehrt bleiben. Mehr noch, sie sollten in diesem Wunsch unterstützt werden. | ||
| 4,352 | 1:42 pm PDT, Aug 12 | Mrs. | Debra Ritchi | ||
| 4,351 | 3:36 am PDT, Aug 2 | Mr. | Simon Altas | to support all indian activities. free the nature and freedom living for all indian peoples |
STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR SACRED RAINFOREST (SARAYACU KICHWA COMMUNITY)
Dear President of Ecuador; Pablo Teran, Minister of Energy and Mines; and Officials of the Government,
We know that Ecuador has a biodiversity of culture and nature in the Amazon Rainforest, and that it is the "Lungs of the World". For us it is very sad to know that the Oil Companies with your approval is going to destroy completely the Amazon region, especially Block 23.
It is the moral responsibility of all the inhabitants of this planet to care and protect this place. Many countries do not even have such places and riches that your country Ecuador possesses. We urge you to stop with this killing and massacre that is about to occur to the peoples who live there and the life of the nature that exists in this region. We urge you to respect and uphold the rights of ILO169 guaranteed to indigenous peoples signed by your country.
In hope that our petition is received, we anticipate giving you our congratulations for saving a region that is so vital and important to the whole world.
We know that Ecuador has a biodiversity of culture and nature in the Amazon Rainforest, and that it is the "Lungs of the World". For us it is very sad to know that the Oil Companies with your approval is going to destroy completely the Amazon region, especially Block 23.
It is the moral responsibility of all the inhabitants of this planet to care and protect this place. Many countries do not even have such places and riches that your country Ecuador possesses. We urge you to stop with this killing and massacre that is about to occur to the peoples who live there and the life of the nature that exists in this region. We urge you to respect and uphold the rights of ILO169 guaranteed to indigenous peoples signed by your country.
In hope that our petition is received, we anticipate giving you our congratulations for saving a region that is so vital and important to the whole world.
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