向常青集团探矿计划说不！

一些与Nancy Sullivan团队一起工作的是巴布亚新几内亚（PNG）最后一批游猎民族（Meakambut people）。他们还居住在这些洞穴中，他们居住的洞穴中的图像相信具有2万年的历史。研究团队还没法证实这些图像的正式年龄，不过这些图像和在婆罗洲以及西澳州洞穴中发现的非常类似。

向常青集团探矿计划说不！

一家Rimbunan hijau（常青集团）旗下名为Pristine No 18的公司，正在申请在这些具有重大历史价值的洞穴和Meakambut people所居住的森林区域范围内的探矿开发执照。不过Meakambut people坚决反对这些探矿以及开发计划。Meakambut知道一旦Pristine No 18开始在这里探矿，就不可能把他们赶出原本属于Meakambut的土地和森林。

Nancy Sullivan团队发起了一项网上联署活动，希望能阻止常青集团对当地的破坏。请支持这项网上联署活动，把常青集团和商业采矿赶出这片净土！

您能带来改变，请签署这网上联署书要求巴布亚新几内亚当局拒绝向常青集团发出执照：http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/no-mining-the-karawari-caves.html

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《RH Group Out of Karawari Caves！》

For the past 7 years, Nancy Sullivan and Assoc, a group of PNG ethnographers, have been recording and conserving the enormous cave art system that riddles the northern escarpment of Mt MacGregor.

Some of the people work with Nancy are amongst the last nomadic hunter gatherers in PNG, and the continue to live in these caves with stencils and images that date back, we believe, 20,000 years. As yet Nancy and assoc haven’t had the expertise to confirm their age, but they are very similar to caves found in Borneo and Western Australia which have been dated to that era.

A company called Pristine No 18, which is partly owned by Rimbunam Hijau, has now applied for an ELA 2008 covering the majority of these historic caves and the rainforest where the Meakambut still live and thrive. But the Meakambut and the entire Penale tribe are adamantly against the exploration. They know that once Pristine #18 has invested in exploration, they will find it impossible to evict them from their lands and forests.

Please support Nancy Sullivan in a campagn to keep RH and commercial mining out of these forests and away from the NATIONAL CULTURAL PROPERTY within them. The Ewa people of the upper Karawari have suffered at the hands of art dealers who emptied their caves of carvings before independence and left them with next to nothing as compensation—while their father’s carvings continue to fetch 6 figure prices on the Oceanic art market and can be seen in museums across the US and Europe. They too would be victims of this short term greed if the exploration went forward.

Pls sign the online petition to tell RH & Pristine No 18 out of Karawari Caves! :http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/no-mining-the-karawari-caves.html