Please sign this AVAAZ petition to try to stop further destruction of the rain forest by mining and agricultural companies.

The Amazon forest accounts for more than half the world’s rainforest and has been highly important in the past in removing an estimated 2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year, However recent droughts particularly the harsh one of 2005 have killed many trees drastically reducing the forest’s ability to take up carbon dioxide. Furthermore drought has increased the rate at which carbon is lost from Amazonian soil to the atmosphere. These effects have combined to turn the Amazon forest from a net remover of carbon dioxide to a net producer, adding an estimated 5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. The Peruvian government has pushed through legislation that could allow extractive and large-scale farming companies to rapidly destroy their Amazon rainforest. The planet simply can’t afford the loss of anymore rain forest. Please act now to add your voice to prevent this disaster. Please visit and sign up here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence