Emergency Reef petition - Greenpeace

Greenpeace has launched an emergency petition as it becomes apparent what is about to happen to the Great Barrier Reef. It sounds absolutely crazy. WTF is going on up there? 

Within weeks, our government could allow shipping port developers to start tearing enormous holes in the seabed inside the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area - a practice known as dredging. 

Some 3 million cubic metres of sediment (enough to fill 1,200 Olympic-sized swimming pools!) would be ripped from the ocean bed, destroying the homes and food sources of turtles, dugongs and rare snubfin dolphins. 

Environment Minister Tony Burke has the power to stop this. So we’ve launched an emergency petition to demonstrate massive community opposition to this dreadful plan. Sign on today and we’ll hand deliver the petition to Burke in front of journalists during the UN World Heritage Committee meeting in June. 

If we act now we can make sure mining companies don’t get away with it. sign here