John,

Brazil’s lawmakers are on the verge of passing a terrifying new law that will rip open the heart of the Amazon for industrialisation – and expel more than a million Indigenous people from their homes.

It needs to pass the Senate first…and we have a plan to stop it for good.

Brazil’s powerful agricultural lobby has spared no cost to push this dangerous law through. And by keeping their shady lobbying in the shadows, they’ve given politicians cover to vote for this outrageously inhumane bill.

If we quickly raise the funds, we can launch an all-out push to make it too costly for politicians to pass the law. It’s going to take polling, investigations, legal tactics, media, and ads for this to work – can you help save the Amazon and its people?

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It’s a death sentence for the Amazon and the Indigenous communities that call it home. Bill number 490 passed Brazil’s conservative lower house of Congress days ago, and we’re all still in shock.

If passed, it would give the government the right to ‘reclaim’ land from Indigenous communities, invalidating their claims to their land if they can’t prove they physically lived there on a specific day in 1988. And it would open the floodgates to new roads, dams, and mines on protected Indigenous lands.

The bill goes to Brazil’s Senate next. If it passes there, Brazilian President Lula could still veto it – but with enough support from Congress, they could override his veto!

That’s why it’s so important that we make the bill so toxic that politicians won’t want to risk supporting it. First, we’ll hire a researcher to expose the companies behind the bill and trace where the dirty lobbying money is going. Then, we’ll be launching hard-hitting campaigns, commissioning polls, and calling out politicians by name all over the media to expose what’s happening. If we raise enough, we’ll hire lawyers and push this fight into the international arena.

Can you help make this important work possible by chipping in just the cost of a cup of coffee to help protect the Amazon and its people?

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We’ve fought and stopped dangerous bills from becoming laws before. It won’t be easy, but together we can stop this bill before it’s too late – and fight to protect rainforests and the communities that guard them.