Does anyone know the right contacts to help? Please reply to Brian Erickson directly. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> More information or a discussion of environmentally sensitive economic development would also be welcome.
>From the Morris K. Udall Scholars listserv: Date: Tue 17 Jul 22:19:34 EDT 2007 From: "Brian Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add To Address Book | This is Spam Subject: [Scholars] amazon conservation issue To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey All, I got an email from a close friend of mine today and she sounds like she is dealing with an important conservation issue down in Peru. She is currently a researcher in the Peruvian Amazon and is trying to make a positive impact on a highway that is being constructed and is scheduled to cut right through virgin forest. I thought you might be interested in seeing what you could do to help spread the word. (This is a real issue, not just another fake petition. If you would like to sign the petition, please check out: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/highway-up) If you have any ideas what-so-ever about what else could be done to go above and beyond petitioning online, a step I know is quite weak and ineffective, please send them to me or directly to my friend, MG, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, here is a snippet from MG about the issue: "asking you to sign my petition on elevating portions of the beast that is coming known as the Interoceanic Highway. Maybe you could pass it on if you could and give any other ideas you might have. This issue is actually mentioned at the bottom of the email to fitz.. except the "researchers" mentioned are me and a big cat biologist named Renata. Anyway, it is a last resort to save the area where I am living right now, at least part of it. And it looks like Renata might be having lunch with the President of Peru soon. There is a lot of talk going on about how this road will be developed, and all of the sudden we are in the thick of it. It is weird, like there are no other biologists stepping up to the plate. Anyway, we want the petition to show that there is public pressure to conserve this area. It gives us power when we talk to officials. The Spanish petition is doing pretty well, but I am hoping that the English one will gain in support. But things are looking ! grim and no one is doing anything about it. We are super limited here though, working on limited energy and internet. So I thought you might know some people that would want to sign it, in Spanish, English or Portuguese.. what ever. I wish I could tell you more about all of this right now, but we don't have any more energy because of the rain." Thanks for your help. Pura vida Brian Erickson '04, '05 _______________________________________________ Scholars mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.udall.gov/mailman/listinfo/scholars Monica H. Moss Watkins M.S. student, Forest Ecology Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources The University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 Building 4, room 321 (706) 742-2808 Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources 100 Years of Academic Excellence: Practical Training for Successful Careers in Forestry and Natural Resource Management
