More than eight million signatures to save the Amazon

"We know that the Amazon must be preserved and that deforestation is causing a great global collapse, mainly through the extinction of species of flora and fauna," Magalhaes said. in his petition on the Internet.

But for the number of memberships over a short period, the petition highlighted by Change.org is the one initiated by Gabriel Santos, a lawyer from Rio Branco, capital of the state of Acre (northern Brazil) , which has added 2.4 million support to stop the Amazon's fires in a few days since its inception on August 21.

"We call on the authorities to open a thorough investigation into the causes of the increase in fires in this region of Brazil and to point the culprits," Santos said in his online petition, in addition to highlighting the that he saw the fires every day and that "He has never seen so much in such a short time."

"80% of the deforested lands in Brazil will be devoted to livestock breeding and soybean cultivation," says the petition created by "Rosa on Earth", a Spanish citizen who asks different countries and international companies "the withdrawal of investment is deforesting the Amazon. "

Rosa de la Tierra's petition, also launched on August 21, has collected more than 92,000 signatures in two days and is expected to reach 100,000 in the coming hours.

This mobilization, described as "unprecedented" by Change.org, is at the top of the platform's campaigns, in front of "Stop the machine of censorship: save the Internet!", Promoted in June 2018 to ask the Reform of the right of # 39; author.

Change.org is a web platform that has more than 300 million users. All requests related to Amazon can be viewed on amazonia-change.org.