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Uprooted community in the Petén department (Photo: Gregory Lassale)
Dear friends of the rainforests,
The Anglo-French company Perenco operates oil wells in the Laguna del Tigre National Park in Guatemala, the largest wetland in Central America. Local people are being deprived of rights as basic as the right to education, the right to health, or access to title to the land they live on.
Instead of guaranteeing human rights for residents of this area, the Guatemalan government has created an army battalion, financed in part by oil exploitation, to intimidate and forcibly displace groups they consider “troublesome” for the development of the region.
Local communities in Petén need our support so that violence against them ends and their rights are respected:
Thanks for being involved,
Reinhard Behrend
Rainforest Rescue (Rettet den Regenwald e.V.)
Rainforest Rescue
Jupiterweg 15, 22391 Hamburg, Germany
info@rainforest-rescue.org • www.rainforest-rescue.org
Donation account:
GLS Bank
IBAN: DE11430609672025054100
BIC: GENODEM1GLS
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