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Subject: Amazon

This has gone to several countries already - It is


not a chain letter
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please read.


>Hi Friends,
>This will only take a few seconds, please pass it


on,
>(via BCC) The
>Brazilian congress is now voting on a project that
>will reduce the Amazon
>rainforest to 50% of its size.
>(YOU MAY HAVE SEEN TODAY THAT GREENPEACE IS
>BOYCOTTING HARDWOOD FROM THE REGION).
>
>The area to be deforested is 4 times the size of
>Portugal and
>would be mainly used for agriculture and pastures


for
>livestock. All the
>wood is to be sold to international markets in the
>form of wood chips, by
>multinational companies... The truth is that the


soil
>in the Amazon forest
>is useless without the forest itself. Its quality


is
>very acidic and the
>region is prone to constant floods. At this time


more
>than 160.000 square
>kilometres deforested with the same purpose, are
>abandoned and in the process of
>becoming deserts. We cannot let this happen.
>
>Copy (not forward) this text into a new email, put
>your complete name in
>the list below, and send to everyone you know.
>
>If you are the 200th person to sign please send a
>copy to Brasil to: fsaviolo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



Thank you for helping.

>01-Fernanda de Souza Saviolo - Rio de Janeiro - RJ


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>02-Nara Maria de Souza - Rio de Janeiro - RJ -
>03-Julio Cesar Fraga Viana - Rio de Janeiro - RJ -
>04-Monica Grotkowsky Brotto -Sao Paulo - SP -
>05-Mauricio Grotkowsky Brotto - S*o Paulo -
>06-Ricardo A.Corrallo - SP
>07-Sunny Jonathan - SP
>08-Leonardo Larsen Rocha - SP
>09-Evandro Sestrem -
>10-Marco Aurlio Wehrmeister - Blumenau - SP
>11-Angela Maria Gonalves - Blumenau -SP
>12-Alessandra Bernardino- Blumenau - SP
>13-Pedro Carstens Penfold - Rio de Janeiro - RJ -
>14-Annelena Porto Delgado - S*o Paulo -
>15-Erica Couto -S*o Paulo-
>16-Justin Martin - Toronto Canada
>17-Bernard Stramwasser - Toronto Canada
>18-Malay Panchal - Toronto Canada
>19-Anand Gohil - Toronto, Canada
>20-Giles Pinto - Toronto, Canada
>21-David Watson- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
>22-matthieu Arouin- grenoble, France
>23-edouard Lesage- grenoble, France
>24-Emilie bader- grenoble, France
>25-Thibaut Bardout- grenoble, France
>26-Isabelle poilot- grenoble, France
>27-Marie Legrand- Ann Arbor, MI USA
>28-Jennifer McCurdy- Simi Valley, CA USA
>29-Osi Geva-Palo Alto, CA USA
>30-Gemma Horner-San Francisco, CA USA
>31-Mike Horner-Stockton-on-Tees,UK
>32-Hans J.M. Nolet, Haarlem, Holland (NL)
>33-Joan Eggink, Amstelveen,Holland
>34-Erik Kluit, Turin, Italy
>35-Pia Barile, Turin, Italy
>36-Patricia Ellis, Mill Valley, California USA
>37-Russell Ellis, Mill Valley, California USA
>38-K.C. Maxwell, Mill Valley, California USA
>39- T. Wongmo, Taos, New Mexico USA
>40- T Josh, Dharamsala, India
>41 Sister Jotika,Bangkok, Thailand
>42 Sister Dhammadinna,Bangkok, Thailand
>43 Flo Rublee, Sechelt, B.C., Canada
>44 Mary Koopman, Tucson, AZ USA
>45 Tom Fox, Brooklyn New York, USA
>46-Arnie Valdez, San Luis, Co.
>47-Maria Valdez, San Luis, Co.
>48-Christine Canaly, Crestone, CO
>49 Mark Jacobi, Crestone, CO
>50 Katie Rogerson, Golden, CO, USA
>51-Michael L. Smith, Berkeley, CA USA
>52-Sylvia Barboza, Berkeley, CA USA
>53-Marite Barboza, San franicsco, CA, USA
>54-Mark Allen Lewis, La Paz, Bolivia
>55-Maria C. San Martin, San Francisco, CA, USA
>56-Eduardo R Gastelu, San Jose, CA, USA
>57-Leonard A. Smith, Fremont, CA, USA
>58-Randall C. Potter, Alameda, CA, USA
>59-Peter Lenhardt, Alameda, CA, USA
>60-Alex Nosal, Seoul, South Korea
>61-Matt Devanney, Banjul, The Gambia
62-Kevin Dixon, Sydney, Australia
63-David McInerney, McLaren Vale, SA, Australia


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