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[ [link removed] ]The Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul,
Campeche

John,

The Maya Forest is like Mexico’s Amazon — home to rare and threatened
species like jaguars, tapirs, and howler monkeys — and the heartland of
Indigenous communities stretching back centuries.

But it’s about to get torn open -- for a multi-billion dollar “tourist
train”!

One tiny local group is fighting it with everything they have — but they
have literally 4 staff. They’ve filed a legal challenge, but without
urgent funding for constitutional experts and lawyers, legal fees, and
research, the case will go nowhere.

This is a true David vs. Goliath story, exactly what our community does
best. If 5000 of us chip in today, we can ramp up our fight and get these
brave nature defenders the cash they need in days — without the mountains
of paperwork and red tape, and months of waiting, that they just can’t
afford.

Can you chip in to save Mexico’s Amazon?



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Mexico’s President Lopez Obrador is doing whatever he can to ram through
construction: staging referendums, attacking critics in the press, even
issuing a Presidential decree to force officials to automatically grant
permits without any ecological or humanitarian regulatory checks. He says
he’s going to bring in the army to get it done!

But legal experts say this whole vanity project is unconstitutional. The
President can try to bypass his own government, but he can’t ignore the
court.

That’s why our partner on the ground is taking immediate legal action to
fight the train. It’s the last stand for the rights of local Indigenous
people, their forests, and all the animals they share it with. But with
just 4 staff and no major donors, they simply cannot do this without our
help. Can you chip in to save Mexico’s Amazon?



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This forest is one of the most crucial biodiversity hotspots on the
planet. It’s the second largest rainforest in the Americas, after the
Amazon. And it’s an ancient home of Mayan Indigenous communities.

It’s already under threat from cattle ranching, agriculture, and forest
fires. It won’t survive the addition of a massive tourist infrastructure
project.

But our community has stood with indigenous defenders of rainforests from
Brazil to Indonesia. Today we can take that fight to Mexico — and give
them a fighting chance to win.



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  Thanks for all that you do,  
Danny, Yasmin, Alys, Ildem and the SumOfUs team



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]Mexico president defends move to shield megaprojects. France 24. 24
November 2021.
[ [link removed] ]Mexico’s opposition pushes back on rules to fast-track public projects.
Financial Times. 23 November 2021.
[ [link removed] ]Mayan Train a threat to the Yucatán peninsula ecosystem. El Universal.
12 November 2018.

 

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