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Clergy from the Diocese of Oxford recently cycled to Downing Street to deliver a petition with 10,000 signatures in support of more government action on climate change. The petition, compiled by relief and development agency Tearfund, urges Prime Minister Gordon Brown to do everything he can to secure a strong Climate Change Bill.
Churches are not burying their heads in the sand, and they recognize the need to deal with and pray about the ecological problems that face humankind.
An area of the Algarve protected by environmental laws has been destroyed by developers according to environmental groups who are now leading court action and calls for the land to be restored to its former state. A Rocha Portugal is working to help this situation.
The Association for the Protection of Jabal Moussa is seeking official protection for 10 million square meters of land at a time when Lebanon is still recovering from devastating forest fires and environmental damage that plagued the country last year.
