CALL FOR URGENT HELP

As an American as well, I second that. That would be such a loss. You are getting close on your 200,000 signatures! Keep it up everyone!!

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Originally Posted by Uhmar

as an American I am so sorry I can not be allowed to vote on your petition to save your beloved forests.

I am saddened by it for you...

Wow just saw Norseman's post. 250,000 signatures!

[norseman]

Cousins across the sea could drop a stroppy e-mail to the US. Embassy in London.

http://www.usembassy.org.uk

just what I was looking for ...well done norseman
consider it done

you should add that to all three Uk forest threads going on

and or make or a seperate usa help thread.

Originally Posted by Amethyst

Merry meet to all my brothers and sisters.

I CALL TO ALL UK MEMBERS FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE.

Mother Earth needs our protection from humanity and your assistance is needed now.

The Earth is also home to the living beings of the trees and plants who provide for us.

THE UK GOVERNMENT PLANS TO SELL OUR FORESTS.

That includes national treasures like the The Forest of Dean, Sherwood Forest and The New Forest.

We cannot allow this to happen.

They could be auctioned and fenced off, run down, logged or turned into golf courses and holiday villages.

We need to stop these plans.

A huge petition will force the government to rethink its plans.

If we can prove how strongly the public are against this, they will have to back down.

Please sign the petition in the link below now. (You need to enter a UK postcode to sign).

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/s...rests#petition


Some blurb:

Our campaign to Save Our Forests hit the headlines this weekend!

First our petition and an opinion poll - paid for by hundreds of 38 Degrees members - were reported on Countryfile, the Today programme and BBC 5 Live breakfast. Then a group including the Archbishop of Canterbury backed our campaign - making the front page of the Sunday Telegraph!

Our pressure is starting to work. If enough of us sign the petition, we can make the government think again.

Please can you help spread the word, and ask your friends to sign the petition too? If enough of us get involved we can to stop these plans - before it's too late and our forests are already being sold, fenced off, run down, cut down or built over.

Please help get the petition past 200,000 signatures this week - forward this e-mail and ask your friends to sign.

They can sign in under a minute by clicking this link:

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/save-our-forests

If you use Facebook, please also spread the word by sharing the petition on your profile:
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/forests-facebook-share

If you use Twitter, please send a “tweet” about the petition by clicking here:
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/forests-twitter-share

Our pressure has got the government worried. They've started a charm offensive, telling us that they love forests too. But right now, despite the warm fuzzy words, David Cameron is pushing through changes to the law. He still wants to make it legal to sell off 100% of our woodlands.

Forests like the Forest of Dean, the New Forest, Bedgebury, Grizedale, Thetford, and Alice Holt are national treasures. Once they’re gone, they are lost forever. If we get enough signatures on the petition, we have a bigger chance of making sure they are protected for wildlife and future generations.

Please forward this e-mail and ask your friends to sign the petition here:
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/save-our-forests

Thanks for being involved.


Blessings, Amethyst x

I live in the States, but give us some valid post codes and i'll sign..

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Norseman,
So it doesn't fall on deaf ears...do you know who to email? I went on the contact of the link you posted and nothing seems to fit. http://london.usembassy.gov/contact.html
Great idea you came up and hope it helps!,
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[GemDragon09]

This is getting out of hand, I can't believe they're going to try and sell it.

Is there anything else we can do?

[Spiritlite]

I don't know if I can sign the petition I'm so sorry, but I will do a lot of praying for earth and those forests. xo
Spiritlite.

[norseman]

Good News - target of 250000 signatories achieved AND the Ramblers Association plus National Trust have come out in support.
Ramblers Association are a real bolshie bunch. Formed in 1930 [ish], they carried out a "Mass trespass" onto private land in the Derbyshire Peaks at Kinder Scout - big scuffle with gamekeepers employed by Duke of Devonshire. It proved to be a turning point in the Association and now they defend the "Right to Roam", and fight any attempt to close off ancient "Rights of Way".
They promote walking and general countryside issues. 485 Ramblers groups plus 350 associated groups - not a mob to be tangled with. I did "patrols" in the Dales National Park to "advise" visitors when the Right to Roam Laws first came in and the Ramblers gave good support.
Anywho, brilliant effort by all concerned. Now to see if it makes any difference. Keep signing folks - why stop at 250000 ?

[norseman]

Originally Posted by norseman

Cousins across the sea could drop a stroppy e-mail to the US. Embassy in London.

http://www.usembassy.org.uk

Sorry. I'm afraid I have no detailed know-how about how to harass your own embassy. If that fails, maybe the UK Embassy in Washington DC - use plenty of words like vandalism, criminal commercialism, etc - you know the words to use. Threaten to cancel holidays, etc.
http://ukinusa.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/our-embassy/contactus
There is a facility to send messages.
You may not be able to sign the petition but you can add pressure on the b......... politicans.

Afterthought - write to your local newspapers about "this crime against nature" - sort of thing newspapers love ! All adds to embarassment factor.

Once they sell the parcels of forest/land to the highest bidder they absolutely will say that the owners can if they so wish have fox hunting on their bit of turf. This government are a bunch of evil crooks..