Save Amazon reef from BP and Total

This 7 January 2017 video is about a unique beautiful ecosystem recently discovered in Brazil: the Amazon reef, where the Amazon river flows into the Atlantic ocean. Mangrove and coral reefs are home there to many vulnerable animal species.

Now, in a few months’ time BP and Total want to drill oil there, threatening this ecosystem.

Greenpeace is waging opposition to that.

A petition to defend the Amazon reef is here.

A SEA of inflatable marine creatures descended outside BP’s international headquarters in London yesterday to protest against a “catastrophic” drilling project near a newly discovered South American reef. Greenpeace activists marched along The Mall and past Trafalgar Square holding placards reading: “BP, Back off the Amazon reef” before arriving at the oil giant’s headquarters: here.

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