Protect La Amistad Biosphere Reserve and the Ngöbe Indians of Panama

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Last week we told you about the stop order on construction of the devastating Chan-75 dam, a project planned for Panama's Changuinola River that would threaten the well-being and homeland of the Ngöbe Indians, as well as La Amistad Biosphere Reserve -- a World Heritage Site and one of the most biologically diverse areas on the planet. Besides flooding Ngöbe villages and harming fish populations key to the Ngöbe diet, the dam would threaten numerous endangered species that call La Amistad home, including the jaguar and resplendent quetzal. After a petition from the Ngöbe, in June the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights told Panama to stop construction of the dam -- but the order doesn't guarantee the safety of the Ngöbe or La Amistad, and the area's unique and endangered species need your help.

Take action by writing to Panama's president; Panama's environmental protection agency; and the president and CEO of the U.S.-based AES Corporation, which is backing Chan-75.

Then learn more about the Center for Biological Diversity's campaign to save Panamanian rainforests and rivers, including our successful work to earn World Heritage Committee recognition of the ecological threats imposed by Chan-75 and other dams that would harm La Amistad.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27560

The U.S.-based AES Corporation's Chan-75 hydroelectric dam project in Panama risks forever altering the pristine Changuinola River watershed and ancestral homeland of the Ngöbe Indians.

If completed, the Chan-75 dam would inundate four Ngöbe villages that are home to approximately 1,000 people. Another 4,000 Ngöbe living in neighboring villages would be affected by the destruction of their transportation routes, flooding of their agricultural plots, lack of access to their farmlands, and loss of fish that are an important protein source in their diet. The dam would also cause grave environmental harm to the UNESCO-protected La Amistad Biosphere Reserve, an international World Heritage Site upriver from the dam site.

Please join the growing international movement to protect this ecological jewel and voice your opposition to the proposed Hydroelectric Projects. Send a letter today to Ricardo Martinelli, President of Panama; the Autoridad Nacional del Ambiente, Panama’s environmental protection agency; and Paul Hanrahan, President and Chief Executive Officer of AES Corporation.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27560

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Soodle Billy Co.Dublin, Ireland @ 01:09AM PT Jul 30
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RC Sihag Hisar, India @ 11:13PM PT Jul 08

Signed please.
Judith Mitchell Waldoboro, ME @ 07:00AM PT Jul 07

Forests such as this one, in addition to being breathtakingly beautiful, are the Earth's Engines. They supply air and water, and support countless intricately interdependent species, hundreds of which we still know nothing about. It is dangerous hubris to charge in with bulldozers and chainsaws. Such ecosystems cannot be restored; the Ngobe Indians cannot repair the delicate fibre of their age-old way of life. Why are their rights; their land, not of paramount importance?

Already, Gaia is objecting to our industrial exploitation of Her territories. We must very critically weigh the cataclysmic destruction like that which this project will cause. A bit more hydroelectric power is not worth what will be forever lost, in satisfying a lust for power.
Liliana Olave Rojas @ 04:43AM PT Jul 07

We humans are here to live beside the environment not destroy it or endanger it by building dams that will damadge the species and also endanger humans lives...........it is important to speak up to help the Ngobe Indians if we can ...why should they suffer if we can stop that ? We need to live in accordance with the laws of nature the planet eco systems and the changing of the climate ...if we go against that we will enevitably suffer no matter what political stand or no mattter where we live in the world. We must stop hurting the planet.
Alisha Nickols Stockton, CA @ 02:08PM PT Jul 05
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Joycey Berry Canton, NC @ 09:00AM PT Jul 04

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L W chippewa falls, WI @ 06:32AM PT Jul 04
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Both the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the World Heritage Centre agree: The U.S.-based AES Corporation's Chan-75 hydroelectric dam project will forever alter the pristine Changuinola River watershed and ancestral homeland of the Ngöbe Indians.

If completed, the Chan-75 dam would inundate four Ngöbe villages that are home to approximately 1,000 people. Another 4,000 Ngöbe living in neighboring villages would be affected by the destruction of their transportation routes, flooding of their agricultural plots, lack of access to their farmlands, and loss of fish that are an important protein source in their diet. The dam would also cause grave environmental harm to the UNESCO-protected La Amistad Biosphere Reserve, an international World Heritage Site upriver from the dam site.

Please join the growing international movement to protect this ecological jewel and voice your opposition to the proposed Hydroelectric Projects. Send a letter today to Ricardo Martinelli, President of Panama; the Autoridad Nacional del Ambiente, Panama’s environmental protection agency; and Paul Hanrahan, President and Chief Executive Officer of AES Corporation.

Visit http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27560 to take action.
B F Harmony, ME @ 08:41PM PT Jul 03

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