The Jordanian government is intending to start mining for copper in Tafila governorate in Jordan on a land that is part of one of the best nature reserves in the country known as "Dana Nature Reserve" which is runned and protected by the RSCN "Royal Society for Conservation of Nature".

The government is looking to increase its income by mining copper from the reserve explaining to the Jordanian society about a thousand jobs could be created which is a sensitive string the government is playing on "The Unemployment"

In the same area there were Roman copper mines some 2000 years ago where the Romans had the copper mines as inslavement place for the early christians who died from breathing the copper dust few years after working in the mines and some 20,000 graves were found in the area for that slaves-force with copper deposits found on there chest bones.

Some ecology researchers found that the underground water and the soil got contaminated and effected life there and the effect of the contamination can still be seen till this day. 

A Beduin community living there had a major problem of high mortality rate between newborns from the contaminated water the community used 15-20 years ago. 

The area there is so dry and barely any life exist there from the contamination the Romans caused 2000 years ago. The area is healing back now from the copper mines of the Romans and now in a modern society and modern governments the same mistake is about to be repeated if we as modern society did not stop it.

The halt of this project is a help to the natural resources such as the underground water and the quality of air the people there breath not to forget the dangered animals in the reserve such as the Caracal and the Ibex and many more reptiles and migrating birds.

The halt of the mining project is what makes us a modern society and modern government living in a modern country.

Sign the petition and stop the killing of mother nature.