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The Trump administration is rushing forward with a reckless plan to throw open America’s pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling — a move that would cause immediate, devastating, and irreversible damage to one of the last completely unspoiled wild places on earth which is home to the Gwich´in people. When an oil spill happened the oil could not be degraded due to the low temperatures. Please sign in addition: this petition from NRDC.

The Indonesian government is being pressured to release a permit for building a 175 meter high hydrodam flooding an area of more than 4,000 hectars in the mids of the Leuser Ecosystem one of the worldwide biodiversity hotspots which is currently under environmental protection. Besides fresh drinking water, these rivers provide the irrigation essential for subsistence rice farming and fisheries, a critical source of livelihood. Even worse the hydrodam is in a location known for earthquakes and tsunamis, placing 250,000 citizens at risk of a man-made disaster. Read 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Men' from John Perkins to see how evil policy makers in developing countries are pressurized to incur debts on large infrastructure projects. In South America heads of the state have been assassinated.

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The Ecuadorian government has announced the auction of 16 new oil concessions covering nearly seven million acres of roadless, primary forest in the south-central Amazon. The Waorani people who live there oppose these plans as the impact on their communities could be devastating. Besides this the exploitation of new oil fields would harm the fulfillment of the Paris agreement.

On May 13th unknown assailants attacked the home of Salomé Aranda at her house threatening her and her family. Salomé is a Kichwa leader in the Ecuadorian Amazon and an outspoken critic of Italian oil giant ENI …

Ashaninka leader Benki Piyãko who was threatened to be killed and thereby arrested because of 'reputational damage' against his persecutors in Brazil has been released and is free again.