Dear colleague,

The campaign to save the Guadiana rock art in Portugal and Spain has
just established an electronic petition site, and we ask for your support
of this endeavour by signing the petition. This will only take seconds, but
it is crucial in deciding the outcome of this issue. At the present time,
490 sites have been reported in the valley, 340 on the Spanish side and
150 on the Portuguese side. Many more are yet to be located, the search only
commenced a few weeks ago. It has become evident that the natural
environment will not be considered in this issue, the valley can only
be saved by an international outcry condemning the proposed destruction
of the rock art. If we permit the inundation of these hundreds of sites to
proceed, many more can be expected to be similarly destroyed elsewhere in
Portugal in future years. We count on your support to save one of the finest
rock art concentrations in Europe and ask you to add your name at the
following
address:

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Alqueva/petition.html

There is room on the petition for a brief comment you may wish to
make. Many
thanks for your support.

Mila Simões de Abreu, IFRAO Representative of Portugal
Robert G. Bednarik, President of IFRAO
Guillermo Muñoz IFRAO Representative of Colombia