After the Greenpeace's campaign ship Esperansa left Okinawa on October 2007, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Environment restarted the survey in the water of Henoko to conduct the environmental impact assessment for constructing the new airbase runaway at Henoko air base.

More than one-third of the mainland of Okinawa has been occupied by US military bases. Not only Henoko air base, but also many US military bases are developing simultaneously against the local will. Deforesting a huge area of Yambaru-forest to construct US helipads in Takae is one of the cases.

One of Greenpeace's supporters has been joining the 24-hour sitting-in at Takae to protect the forest and protest the construction. He also has operated a petition site:

Save Okinawa Woodpecker and Rail from US Military Helipad

Please take a good look and join this petition. Your 2-minutes signing-up effort does make a huge difference to save the untouched local ocean and forest.


Also please printout the petition sheet and sign directly to it, as the formal form that Japanese Diet only accepts is the direct-signing-in petition.

Printout

About 5800 have jointed this petition since this September. The dead line is on the end of this year, and the target number is 15000. This petition will be brought to the Diet at the beginning of year 2008.