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One of the most photographed tourist attractions in Europe, the giant letters "Iamsterdam" in front of the Rijksmuseum, turned yesterday into "Iamazonia" by Greenpeace.

The 22-meter-by-3-meter replica wants to draw attention to a vital landmark on the planet that is disappearing: the Amazon rainforest.

"It's only when something goes missing that we realize how much we miss it," said Sigrid Deters, Greenpeace's expert on forests and biodiversity, in a statement.

Sigrid Deters, em frente às letras “Iamazonia”

The iconic letters “Iamsterdam”, installed in front of that museum in 2006, had been removed from the site in December 2018 by decision of the Amsterdam Chamber. The reason is that they would be encouraging mass tourism and attracting too large a crowd into the limited space concerned.

“We are all Amazonia. I hope people and leaders around the world will think about losing our dearest and taking urgent action, ”said Danicley de Aguiar of Greenpeace Brazil.

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According to this expert, deforestation of the Amazon forest will have "catastrophic impacts on climate change, not only in Brazil but around the world." “The climate crisis is the biggest emergency in the history of mankind and the projects that allow the advance of logging in the Amazon threaten the indigenous peoples who live there and are a blow to the hope of keeping the average temperature rise of the planet at 1.5ºC. "

Greenpeace recalls that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro intends to open the Amazon to logging. To try to protect the forest, Greenpeace has filed a petition as part of the All eyes on the Amazon campaign. Actions are currently underway to curb illegal logging as well as illegal mineral and oil extraction operations and the expansion of industrial and livestock agriculture.

By: Wilder