Subject: ALQUEVA DAM PREHISTORIC ROCK ART SOS Petition to Portuguese government and Europ
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 GIPRI -IFRAO Representative of Colombia