Petition Urge Brazil not to hand the Amazon over to mining companies

Brazilian President Michel Temer is approving several new infrastructure projects including dams, man-made waterways and mines which will exacerbate the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. More than 40 hydroelectric dams will be built by 2020, which will endanger about one-fifth of the Amazon.

More details

https://news.vice.com/story/brazil-is-handing-over-the-amazon-rainforest-to-mining-companies-and-big-agriculture

The UK Government should work with other countries to put pressure on Brazil to stop this.

This petition closed early because of a General Election Find out more on the Petitions Committee website

7 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 7 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 3 May 2017
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.