More than 8 million signatures to defend the Amazon – Telam

Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Peru are leading the countries of origin of the companies that, on the Change.org portal, claim to save the Amazon through various requests to promote defense of the environment and biodiversity in this region, which suffers fires for two weeks, said Gastón Wright, director of Change Argentina and Cono Sur.

Between the demand of Latin America (without Brazil), which has more than 3 million signatures, and that of Brazil, which has already reached 5 million, 8 million members claim up to the end of the year. now put an end to fires in the Amazon.

"This petition has the largest number of signatures in the history of Change.org in Latin America since the launch of the platform in 2012," said Wright during a dialogue with Telam.

"Also," he warned, "he's about to become the petition asking for more signatures on Change.org on a global scale, that is, the petition with more of signatures since 2007 ".

In addition, he noted that in Argentina (second country in number of signatures after Brazil and Mexico), the demand "is the first in the traffic for two days and not down".