"A Terra não é um presente dos nossos pais mas sim um empréstimo dos nossos filhos"
"LA UNICA LUCHA QUE SE PIERDE, ES LA QUE SE ABANDONA". Sigamos luchando por nuestro pasado stop stop stop stop
... e eu acreditava numa comunidade cientifica... no minimo, com a mesma postura a' do coa!
...e pelo direito a um futuro ambientalmente saudavel!
¡¡Salvad la cultura!!
¿que vamos a dejar para el futuro?
''A ARTE (a beleza) DA' SEGURANÇA AO MUNDO'' Dostoievsky
A barragem inacabada será um monumento à coragem política
A Crime to Human History
a good deed, indeed, to stop the dam As an anthropologist, I request reciprocity for the inclusion of the rock art in the Chiriqui Viejo River in Panama in the studies for the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor
A strong case needs full support!
aguante boca bayer no es bueno!!!!!!!! I'm from Aruba in the Caribbean. We should save these old arts
All cultural heritages require study and understanding before drastic decisions such as those affecting the Alqueva rock art patrimony are made
All of us should do something for the rock arts
all rock art is valuable to the knowledge of mankind
All Russian egyptologists support you
Alqueva Dam is like destroy our life
Alqueva need more time to scientific investigation
Alqueva pertence a toda a gente do mundo. Nao pode ser destruida
An arceological tragedy - sacralige!
analfabetismo e' um problema crónico que nos afecta desde que se marcou "o tempo" - como sendo começado por este tipo de "escrita" - entendam sr. Ministros do Planeamento, Cultura, Ambiente etc., etc,. ?! Mais documentos que homenageam à grande barbarie "da magnifica Biblioteca de Alexandria" !
ANIMAIS do governo nem o ke da humanidade preservam
aquatic preservation
Archaeologist of the Greek Ministry of Culture a disgraceful project which will ruin wildlife as well as the prehistoric art Please preserve humankind's heritage !! Quod non fecerunt barbari .. Save the past that can not be replaced
Archaeologist please save it
arguments don´t have a loby!
arqueólogo
artiste peintre
As a student in history I gladly support this petition! Save the rock art!
as an archaeologist i could not stay without taking any atitude to this!!!
As an archaeologist, I strongly urge you to take the necessary steps to save this non-renewable heritage resource
as gravuras sao a prova documental, milenar - da 'qualidade' dos estudos de i.ambienal - tambem no alqueva! sugiro que dependurem esses ''estudos'' num pelourinho qualquer!
As nações da Espanha e de Portugal, como membros atuantes da ONU e da UNESCO, assinaram, no decorrer do século XX, vários documentos relacionados à preservação de seu patrimônio. Da Carta de Atenas, à Carta de Nova Delhi (1956), até o acordo firmado em 1990 sobre gerenciamento e proteção do patrimônio arqueológico, em Lausanne, estes países se comprometeram a cumprir os acordos internacionais, que simplesmente não podem ser desconsiderados. Toda comunidade européia, americana, asiática, africana e da oceânia deve se mobilizar, pois o risco de perda de um único patrimônio é o risco de toda uma humanidade. Temos que cuidar que não apenas esses acordos não sejam rompidos, mas o acordo firmado entre os países após a Segunda Guerra, ao construirem a ONU, relacionado à busca para uma paz mundial
As part of the European tradition, please, do save the prehistorick rockart of our ancestors!
As spanish environmental journalist I join your petition economista!
As we destroy the natural environment and the record of our history, so goes the human spirit Please change your plans
As with Foz Coa, this construction must be stopped
At the very least, construction should stop until a proper inventory and evaluation can be done and alternatives considered for recording and protection of this priceless heritage resource! How could anyone question the reasonableness of such a recommendation? Will this electricity create something that is more valuable than what it destroys?
Ata cando tanto desencontro co medio
Board of Directors, New York Rivers United
By destroying these images you are destroying your own cultural heritage and potential economic advantages through tourism. Many many people travel and go on holidays just to get glimpses of what truly are profound images of our past. For a nation such as Portugal with such a rich and dramatic history, I feel you are excluding your own people's right to their past and dishonouring the lives and memories of those without whom you would not even be here to make these sad decisions
care about and value our world, our people, our past and future by protecting our rock-art
changing watercourses ALWAYS ends up reducing the total amount of water available to the land
CIARU No comments!!!!!!!!! CIARU CIARU
como arquitecto ja vi ao vivo que, tal como noutros locais, o ''progresso'' esquece muito facilmente... vilarinho das furnas, cohra bassa, (o nilo)... e as suas culturas insubstituiveis!
Como pode o homem ser tão irresponsável em relação ao seu patrimônio cultural?
Como professora de Educacao Visual e especializada em arte rupestre penso que como metodo de trabalho deve-se primeiro estudar e depois avancar para a concretizacao do projecto se tal for o caso
Como sustento histórico de la humanidad, es importante preservar y respetar el arte rupestre
COTA 112!!! There must be arranged a moratorium in the accomplishment of the dam project to record the rock art in the endangered zone and to save the testimonials of cultural heritage from destruction, before a serious field research is done in that area Por favor, no destruyan el Patrimonio Cultural Ibérico. Es nuestra seña de identidad al sur de Europa SIARB strongly supports the petition to stop the Alqueva Dam Project to preserve endangered prehistoric rock art archéologue
Cota 139!!!
cuida tu pasado para entender tu presente...
Cultural preservation is the responsibility of all citizens There is no excuse for NOT recording cultural heritage sites. This must be done before flooding the region
Cunha, no cunha, que lastima. Pois nao for now. Close-range photogrammetry? Recorded in Canada and US. To compare, how, if destroyed. Preserve. Bom dia
damn the dam
Deguem d'intentar que el desenvolupament no es realitze a base de destruir el patrimoni cultural.
Delay for emergency complete recording
Deseo se realicen todas las medidas necesarias para preservar el regsitro arqueológico
Do not drown the voices from the past! Alqueva Dam will also kill the typical vegetation of the margins of the Guadiana
Doctor in Geology
don't destroy the heritage of the UNBORN
Don't do it
Don't we never learn from preceeding mistakes ?
El patrimonio arqueológico, histórico y cultural no nos lo heredaron nuestros padres, sino nuestros hijos no lo han prestado, por eso tenemos la obligación de preservarlo para las nuevas generaciones This is a shocking piece of cultural destruction!
El patrimonio histórico no es solo una riqueza para el país donde se halla, és un bien de todos con todos los derechos y deberes que ello comporta. Ningún colectivo ni ningún país tiene derecho a destruirlos
El yacimiento rupestre del Guadiana es el más importante de la Península Ibérica al sur de la cordillera Cantábrica
em nome de colegas arqueólogos e antropólogos do Brasil lamento a destruição de patrimônio desta importância
erro historico de um governo democratico
Es importante proteger todos los sitios de arte rupestre no solo de Europa, sino del mundo
Es necesario dar tiempo a una valoración de pros y contras, y no lanzarse a una apresurada acción puramente comercial This dam will not only destroy these important specimens of prehistoric art, but it will also endanger many wildlife species including the Iberian Lynx. A dam of smaller scale would provide sufficient water for the region. Please listern to the people and preserve this important area of natural beauty
escultora e prof. das cadeiras de desenho!
est es nuestra memoria historica
Estado e o Gorveno Portugueses têm a obrigação de defender e preservar o património nacional e universal! E deve-se aprender com os erros do passado (e dos outros)
Estonian Society of Prehistoric Art
estudante de História e Arquelogia da Universidade Federal de Pelotas
firma de 10 personas
firmas del grupo de 20 personas
firmo un manifiesto contra el embalse de Alqueva
for the UK Rivers Network
Give the past a future save the alqueva dam
Graduate student in rock art research Safe Alentejo............... Quota 139 !!!!
Having seen Aboriginal rock art - this also must be saved
Healing systems around the world trace their roots to prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies, who documented their cosmologies in the form of rock art. Destrying them is destroying the most ancient texts we have - each one a first and only edition
Historical Sites like these are to be treasured not destroyed
Homem já arruinou a Terra, já exterminou espécies, já se contaminou com novos vírus;chegou a altura de aprender a ser humano! Olvidando o nosso passado, estaremos a confinar o nosso futuro às trevas da ignorância. Evolução alguma se baseia na perda da identidade histórica.
Hope, this will support the campagne!
How did this project that will devestate some of man's earliest communications ever get this far? Is the world indeed asleep?
http://personales.unican.es/cachor/
Huge dams in the Middle East have been disasterous. In this respect it is worthy of note that international companies have recently withdrawn tenders for a new dam on the River Euphrates.
human history Vs. human present and future?
Humanity has shown remarkable short sightedness when considering short term benefits vs. universal values. The US congress just passed a bill allowing oil drilling in the last protected wilderness in Alaska. Must we destroy everything ?
I agree. They shouldn't shut this down! They should keep it up and let the whole world still be able to come and see it whenever they want Firm this petition and in the same address: Poets Republican Circle; Poets Against Columbus'Genocide and Iquierda Republicana de Burgos
I am an American anthropologist living in Japan
I am an International Business Consultant. I know that cultural and political decisions DO have an impact on how others see your country and affect their business decisions. Destroying your own cultural heritage is not a positive message. Would YOU want to do business with people who act like this?
I am co-founder of Sacred Sites International Foundation and consider this to be a very sacred site that must be saved
I am dismayed and appalled. You would have thought we would have learned our lesson by now
I do urge that the dam is reconsidered, and this vital patrimony preserved The past must be preserved
I fully agree with the petition
I have visited the old and the new villages and I must say that if the Government says that it is trying to build the houses just as they were before, it is not true and everyone can see that. The new houses are awful. Although the government claims that the new village will only have houses that look like typically houses from that part of the country (Alentejo), that is not true. They are building some cheap huts to replace some very good houses.Not all of them are new, but some of the houses are and the Alqueva dam will do serious harm to the owners of these houses
I hope your countrymen realize how important archeological sites are to their heritage and that they are not a renewable resource
I like the , Rock Art . So I hereby sign the Petiton
I live in a country with several water powerplants - they are ALL OBSOLET !!!!!!! because the KWH ( energy unit ) is TOO EXPENSIVE to built
I nostri "Tristi tropici" la cultura si trasforma, non si elimina
I saw the must of all Alqueva Rock Art in Portugal and Spain
I strongly support the petition
I strongly support the preservation of the paintings
I strongly support the preservation of these irreplaceable and significant historic resources
I think that Alqueva Rock Art must be preserved above all things
I travel to see petroglyphs not dams!
I was surprized to here of what was happening in portugal concerning the ancient rock art that has lasted so much longer than any nation or political power. The costs and manpower involved in constructing the Alqueva dam will become a burden on Portugal and other European Countries when the bill comes about....
I wish to add my name to the petition condemning the destruction of hundreds of rock art sites threatened by the proposed Alqueva Dam. These sites represent one of the finest rock art concentrations in Europe and every effort must be made to preserve them for the future
I.T.TOPOGRAFIA me parece una puta salvajada lo que se va a hacer y además va en contra de todas las leyes de proteccion del patrimonio.SEÑORES: QUE HAY ARTE PALEOLITICO!
If it is too late to stop the project now, at least the time for thorough documentation should be provided The European University Centre for Cultural Heritage was among the first promoters of the campaign in favour of the protection of the Guadiana rock art complex. The final statement signed by the participants to the meeting held in Ravello (I) last 5th May, addressed to national, communitarian and international institutions, was welcomed and appreciated by, among the others, Vlasta Stepova ; General rapporteur on the Cultural heritage of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe; Daniel Thérond -Chief of the Cultural Heritage Division of the Council of Europe; JacquesLegendre ; Senator of the French Republic. We strongly confirm our support to the petition concerning the Guadiana valley and we are deeply upset by the lost of such important assets that the building of the dam can involve
If the dam is really necessary to the economy, mesures should be taken to record as much as possible of the carvings in the Guadiana valley
If we destroy all evidence of our past - what do we leave for future generations? These engravings are part of your cultural heritage. You suceeded with the Coa River engravings. May you suceed again As a geologist I am convinced that dams are the worse, unsafe and useless thing we can build Please save our ancient heritages
if we don't preserve the past, what good is the future?
Igual barbaridad hiceron en mi pais en el Cañón de Ahichila , Coahuila, México.Por fortuna tengo fotografias de antes de esto, procuren obtener fotografias de cuanto vestigio rupestre encuentren antes de que sea demasiado tarde, es la unica manera de protegerlos de los Vandalos de la Ignorancia
I'm absolutely APPALLED that ANYONE would consider this barbaric destruction
In addition this is an environmental disaster
In my role of IFRAO-UNESCO Liaison Officer, IFRAO Representative of Italy, Director of the Prehistoric Art Museum, Teacher of Archaeological Museology, Polytechnic University of Turin, I give my full agreement to the Alqueva Petition.
In New Zealand many of my own tribes best rock art heritage has been lost through dam development, denying the world this treasure. Please don't do the same to yours
increible
Insane development. Put the money in alternative (solar, wind) energy and organic agriculture projects instead
It ceases to amaze me how people of this world continue to rid us of our past history...come on PEOPLE!!!! Stop destroying sacred history!!!
It happened within my memory that memory has been flooded.. after Bamijian, also this?
It is also very worrying to see the destruction of such a large area of mediterranean forest and shrubland, home to threatened species such as the spanish linx, imperial eagle, etc., for a project which would not seem to adapt to the future criteria of sustainable development. The financial advantages of the dam construction project also suggest important short falls behind the economic feasability of the project. what is created can also distroy the irreplacable
It is irresponsible to have not properly mitigated the effect of inundation. At the very least proper archaeological and heritage survey and recording of the impacted area is a must for any enlightened nation
It is sad when even the "sacred" is not considered so, to the powers that continue to destroy so much, in the name of progress. Stop the sensless destruction !!
It is unthinkable that this could even happen! Please! save the rock art - stop the damn dam
It seems that you can remove the surface of the rock art and preserve them at another proper sites
Its a tragedy to lose history before we have absorbed it
It's outreageous!
just save it!!
just stop it The documentation on this topic prooves that insufficient research is done before this mega-work started. Apart form other effects, it's a shame for the cultural heritage More research should be done
La historia juzgará a los que destruyan el patrimonio histórico de la humanidad El patrimoni arqueològic rupestre és fonamental per entendre el comportament de les societats prehistòriques i per donar a conèixer com l'ésser humà socialitzava el seu entorn i territori
La unión hace la fuerza
Les ruego parar la destrucción de los petroglyfos prehistóricos que amenaza la construcción de la represa de Alqueva
lfcoimbra@clix.pt
Los gobiernos democráticos no pueden actuar como los talibanes
los mensajes cifrados dejados por nuestros antiguos es un patrimonio que hay que defender como legado a las venideras generaciones con la secreta esperanza de que un nuevo conocimiento decifre sus mes mensajes, no le pertenece a nadie el derecho de privar a la humanidad de este patrimonio
MA, Rock Art não matem a história
Mais tempo para trabalhar
mane, thecel, phare's!!
moa toke he tangata !
most important site
Most of the rock art in Scandinavia is found during last 30 years, and more is found every year. We are just beginning to understand the universal character of the prehistoric art. Do not destroy!
Museo Arqueologico San Miguel de Azapa
Não podemos pensar para um futuro de 100 anos, quando se perde um passado de vários mil anos. O nosso passado é a nossa identidade. Parem a barragem. Sejam realistas. Atenção à fallha geológica
Ne détruisez pas, pour des intérêts économiques à court terme, un patrimoine qui nous vient de la Préhistoire, qui aide à comprendre le présent, et qu'il est de notre devoir de léguer à ceux qui viendront après nous !
Ni siquiera sabemos a ciencia cierta de dónde vinimos..... o hacia dónde vamos... ¿Cómo destruir tan valiosos legados? El progreso se nutre de la experiencia adquirida en el pasado. Conservemos lo poco que nos queda de ese pasado While I understand the need for power resources for the nation of Portugal, I have to wonder how much study has been done on alternatives to hydroelectric sources. The Tennesse Valley Authority had destroyed any number of areas of historic importance in my area, long before my birth. We are still left with energy problems in my area and nation despite of this. Please do consider further study, and long range (into the next century) planning
No a la brutalidad del Gobierno Portugues
NO AHOGUEN EL LEGADO DE SUS ANTEPASADOS
no al llenado de Alqueva
no alqueva ''emerge' uma nova especialidade tecnico/artistica: o arquitologo (= tecn. do improviso nas areas - hidraulica, arquitectura do 'ambiente, geologia agricultura, economia ''bolsista'', arqueologia na sub-especie 'rock art''/sociologica... e teologia)
No debe el avance cultural apisonarse a sí mismo Our advancing technology should be advanced in the direction such that it frees us from ccommitting the blunders we have in the past
No destruyan la historia por favor
No Hoover Dam in Europe!!!
no más presas
No queremos que el legado de los que antes estuvieron aquí se pierda
No quiero que nuestros arboles y animales desaparezcan por la sin razón humana
Not again!!
nunca mais aprendemos!!! citando um triste slogan ''quen nao sabe ler (as gravuras) e' como quem nao ve
Once a country's cultural hertiage is gone, what is there that is left to show for one's early beginnings?
One more year for an international intensive survey Aquie en Magdalena, Sonora tambiena tenemos mucho arte rupestre y estamos haciendo esfuerzos para conservarlo. No dejen de luchar
Parade o crime!! The destruction of this exceptionally important piece of our common human heritage is unthinkable. Please for short term gain do not comprimise our collective future!
Patrimoni de l'humanitat, ara
Pelo Vale do Guadiana
pesquisadora em Arte Rupestre no Centro do Brasil The rock art to be submerged by the Alqueva dam has been shown to be of major pre-Historic significance. It is therefore absolutely necessary to immediately conduct further studies on these pictures, in order to at least document this cultural heritage properly. Most (!) of Portugal's rock-art heritage has been lost totally due to dam constructions without any documentation. Such a loss can not be tolerated once more. I personally, and certainly some other members of the German Society for Petroiconology, too, should be pleased to offer advice and help
Petroglifs of a valley Allgueva have world cultural meaning and should be kept for the future Rock Art cannot be replaced
Please act fast!
Please consider alternative to this destruction
Please consider future generations
Please consider suspending this development before yet more valuable world archaeology is lost to 'progress'! A little time granted now could make all the differerence and ensure that the needs and desires of everyone are met
Please do all possible to save rock art at Guadiana
Please do not build this gigantic dam project and submerge/ destroy people's culture and livelihoods!
please do not create this monstrocity. A developers disire for riches should not out weigh the needs of the earth
Please do not destroy the significant natural and cultural importance of this region. We have spend many hours (and tourist dollars) traveling to see petroglyphs, dolmens, menhirs and rock circles in Portugal.
Please don't close the door on past. By doing so, we all lose and a piece of our shared heritage will be lost forever
Please don't destroy the humman heritage
Please dont destroy the roots of our cown culturual heritage. The culturual heritage of the rock arts are intimely realterd to the tourism in this area and from international importance. Please dont destroy the roots of your culturual heritage. The culturual heritage of the rock arts are intimately realted to the tourism development in this area and from international importance This rock-art is yet another good reason not to build the dam as big as planned Prehistoric rock art offers an exceptional view into the past. It is something that could not be destroyed: it should be studied and kept for later generations. It could however be developed as a tourist attraction
Please don't do this
Please don't do this these are things that cannot be replaced or replicated and are very important!
please don't ruin history with folly
Please ensure the protection of these rock art sites that are of international importance.
please implement sustainable practices, not irreversible unknowns
Please Please Please look to conscience, your traditions, and what you will leave behind for your grandchildren and theirs. We are GUARDIANS of this earth. It is NOT ours to pillage PLEASE pay attention to this petition la cultura debe estar por encima del capitalismo
Please preserve and protect the irreplaceable
Please preserve this site for the benefit of world culture
Please protect the watershed of the Guadiana River which is so important to many communities including olive harvesters, migrating Iberian lynx, and special prehistoric rock art. The Natural value trumps what a few might try to eke out of the area. Thanks for addressing these concerns
Please protect this precious site!
please reconsider
Please save the petroglyphs Loss of heritage on this scale exceeds the damage by the Taliban. This is attrocious and unconsionable
Please save the rock art Al final, conservaremos solamente lo que amemos, amaremos solamente lo que comprendamos, y comprenderemos solamente lo que enseñemos Un motivo más se añade a la larga lista de valores que ahogaremos con las aguas de la presa de Alqueva. Fragmentos de nuestra prehistoria que han permanecido miles de años pueden desaparecer
Please save the rock art in its natural inviroment
Please STOP the ALQUEVA DAM ...e pelo direito a um rio vivo! cota das gravuras!
Please take the time to document what is going to be destroyed. This form of cultural heritage can never be replaced
Please try to respect what some of us have done before, thats the only way that people that came after us will respect what have we done today
Please, be reasonable and take your responsibilty!
Please, consider alternative solutions. Too much of our past has already been erased, we DON'T need to lose another chapter of our past!
please, save them!
Please't deatroy the links to our past
Poco a poco hasta no dejar nada: Las grandes obras siempre empiezan por las cosas "pequeñas"
Pode ser que a natureza se encarregue de corrigir o que a megalomania política faz. Agora que a agricultura portuguesa é pressionada pelos burocratas de Bruxelas é que se concretiza a barragem 'para bem da agricultura alentejana' que de sequeiro passa para o regime mais produtivo de regadio. Enfim, mistérios...Quanto à arte rupestre, o que é ridículo é que os responsáveis foram fazendo aos bochechos durante a construção da barragem o que deveria ter sido feito antes de - a prospecção sistemática da área e a apresentação de um relatório que faria parte do Estudo de Impacto Ambiental como a lei exige. Parece que a Lei é para ser cumprida só pelos cidadãos/cidadãs comuns e não pelos responsáveis da 'res publica'
pointless and hugely destructive
políticos brutos e ignorantes + intereses económicos = memoria borrada, lavado de cerebro histórico
Por favor salven el patrimonio de la humanidad Presidente da Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos - Doutor em Arqueologia Clássica pela USP - Professor de História da Universidade Federal de Pelotas - Coordenador do Laboratório de Ensino e Pesquisa em Antropologia e Arqueologia da UFPEL
Por favor, respeten el patrimonio
Porque tambem acredito que e' necessario ''combater" os germens dos fanatismos''! (cit. o Presidente Sampaio )
Prehistoric art is the heritage of all mankind; having survived for thousands of years it is now being destroyed worldwide at an alarming rate. The rock art in the impact zone of the Alqueva Dam project is some of the finest in the world and deserves full protection. Surely we can use technology creatively, respecting cultural traditions, rather than allow present concerns to obliterate such important parts of our past and so severely narrow the options for our future
prehistoric people were supose to be the barbarians but we're the ones who destroy their art O progresso e as pressoes economicas nao devem ser justificativa para destruir o patrimonio que e' de todos para sempre!
Prehistoric rock art is a treasure that belongs to the world. Please save the site for future generations
Prehistoric signs are not renewable
Preservar las espreciones del arte rupestre es preservar una parte de nuestras raices ,saver de donde venimos ayuda a saver a donde vamos
President Transhumance & Nature Foundation
Prevent a cultural catastrophe
Priceless heritage
professora... se valer a pena!!! Though I think that the dam should be built, I wish that enough time be given to the archaeologists to save as much as possible of the prehistoric rock art Once destroyed, regretted for ever !
Projecto desenquadrado e ultrapassado, num dos mais belos lugares do planeta, de ecossistemas únicos com elevados padrões de biodiversidade, onde existem plantas e animais ameaçados de Extinção. Onde a história do homem sempre foi feita com o rio, como demonstra a arte rupestre agora descoberta! Alqueva vai mostrar ao Alentejo, ao País e ao Mundo, impactes sociais, ambientais e culturais, nunca vistos á escala Europeia
protect our past !!!
protection of the environment and of our past is essential for the transiton towards sustainable development. We should start now !. I am from Barcelona, Spain, but I am Project Manager at the European Environment Agency of the European Community in Copenhagen, Denmark
Que al menos esta petición sirva para bajar la cota y proteger algo nuestra naturaleza, sobre todo nuestros encinares The long-term value of the world's rock art, as heritage and tourism resources, is inestimable and the issue must be brought up in an urgent re-assessment of the dam project by an independent body
remnants like this,of our far past are beyond price Please don't destroy the human heritage
representing Acção Ambiental para o Barlavento
Represento al Comite de Investigacion del Arte Rupestre de la Sociedad Argentina de Antropologia con 250 socios
respetemos el pensamiento y el arte de la cultura del hombre!!
Ricercatore al Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Torino
Rock art is a priceless heritage for all peoples of the world Talvez a decisao mais importante, vis a vis o ambiente, deste seculo!
Rock art is one of the most important ways to learn about our oldest ancestors, its very important to protect them!!! Preservation of this art site and for that matter any site that has significance must be protected so that future generations can learn of our prehistory. We, in Australia, are fighting for the preservation rock art and sights of significance so that my children and their children can have the opportunity study the past and its rich diversity of cultures. I,m a member AURA, Australian Rock Art Association understanding the past will lead to a better future!!!
Rock art is vital
salvemos lo que aun queda, en memoria de lo que se ha perdido
Salven el arte rupestre
são sempre 2 pesos e 2 medidas...E porque se travou Foz Coa?
Save a world heritage site!
Save it!
Save our cultural heridity :rockart Extremadura no puede mostrarse indiferente ante tal gesto de desprecio hacia nuestro Patrimonio Cultural
Save our past for our future
save prehistoric culture for future generations please take this seriously
save rock art heritage A tragedy!
save the art
save the culture
Save the heritage!
Save the Petroglyphs!
save the rock art
Save The Rock Art!
Save the rock art!
Save the rock art! Please do not destroy the cultural sites
Save the soul of tha olds one
saverockart
Se debería investigar las responsabilidades políticas, puesto que este asunto "huele"
Si queremos dar ejemplo a las futuras generaciones para que respeten nuestro legado, debemos empezar por respetar y preservar el legado del pasado
simplesmente lamentavel! agricultor biologico
Situación lamentable. Es importante preservar este arte por toda su significación
So little kown, so much to do!
Solicito apoyo recíproco para que los petroglifos en el Rio Chiriquí Viejo en la Provincia de Chiriquí, República de Panamá, se incluyan dentro del Corredor Biológico Mesoamericano, al igual que cualquier otro petroglifo que se encuentre en oros países mesoamericanos This area must, must be preserved
sos rockartonALQUEVADAMPREHISTORIC
Sou Licenciado em História e considero o que se está a preparar criminoso
Stop now
stop the dam as world heritage is very important
stop the dam!
Stop the damn dam !
Stop the environmental crime! Be ashamed of the EU Commission!
Stop this lunacy stop building dams
stop this project!!
Stop this senseless loss of life and property
Such a fragile, unique and archaeologically important landscape should be preserved at all costs for the cultural heritage of nations
Supoño que é mellor conversar o pouco da Historia, que cada vez queda menos, que potenciar unha obra caduca para favorecer intereses que sexan ou non importantes a pouco prazo. Quizais sexa hora de que os governos e entidades privadas pensen primeiro no impacto medio ambiental que está a Sufrir a Península ibérica que o de gañar diñeiro. A auga e o ouro que temos que conservar actualmente e non alterar o medio ambiente.... Queremos o Sahara en España/Portugal? Somos cada vez máis ignorantes ou máis cabezotas en temas ecolóxicos? Máis vale prever e previr que lamentar... noutros países danlle máis importancia á historia, que somos os do sur de Europa... o centro de probas de lavoratorio de todas as propostas que dictan desde o Parlamento ou desde EUA? Señores realmente estamos en Democracia? ou simplemente todo son palabras?. Eu en particular estou en contra de tanto embalse anthropologist It's very important to study these engravings
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Surely the same mistake cannot be made twice?
The area is so vital to the world's early development and history, please find a way to save the art and culture. Thank you
The Cochiti Dam on the Rio Grande River and Navajo Reservoir on the San Juan River, both in New Mexico, USA, are near my home. Both have destroyed many petroglyphs and pictographs which were sacred to the Pueblo and Navajo Indian tribes here. These dams, as a result, are open wounds in our consciences, and have diminished the archaeological and religious legacy of the Americas. The same thing will result if the Alqueva Dam is constructed. The famous Elizabethan English poet, John Donne, wrote, "No man is an island unto himself. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee." In other words, the loss of this ancient legacy of spiritual images is a wound we all bear. It is a loss not just to the Pueblo or Navajo Indians, the people of Portugal, or even the entire European Union. It is a diminution of the spiritual heritage of all mankind, regardless of race, color, or culture. Think of these serious matters. These losses are like amputations to the world body. re near my home near my home
The dam is a crime against nature and culture. The dam is unuseful for Alentejo agriculture. Please stop this environmental monster and this waste of money
The dam is a temporary structure, the pertroglyphs will be severely damaged if not eradicated for eternity! Barragem de Alqueva, um exemplo de dinheiro esbanjado
The dam should be stopped
The Dam should never have been built and the reservoir should never be filled Por Favor no destruyan nuestra Historia! Respetemosla!!
The destruction of the Tejo River sites should be enough vandalism. All responsable persons should come together to do the necessary to protect the Guadiana River sites for further generations. This cultural heritage survived thousands of years, but now the lack of restraint of one generation will destroy everything for ever
The earth as a mother would request the same respect as your own mothers
The EU must protect the environment as well as the economy. Environment = Economy, Economy = Environment!
The fact that this art was not included in the decision making process begs the question, "what else has not been taken into account?"
The Guadiana rock art should be preserved for humanity -- it is no one's to destroy. There is so much we do not yet know about rock art, and if flooded the opportunity to learn from it would be lost, probably forever.
The industrialist dams belong to another era and are not only a crime against prehistoric art but also a crime against environment that will have azardous consecuencies on the ecosystems, biodiversity and human sustainable development
The information available today about the area which will be influenced by the dam shows that important natural and cultural resources will be destroyed and that the gain (electricity, work opportunities etc) will be minimal if any at all. A decision to stop the dam will be an example to the world of concern for environment (natural and cultural) We need to study that prehistoric rock art site, at least we can leave the memory to our children
The only reason to don´t destroy the past is money. Only money can make the world go round... The economics interests is much more important and all the rest is theory. That´s "our" world.
The only way to understand the present is to understand the past
The past history of humans is so yet undecided that any destruction of Rock Art Sites is a destruction of humankind
The Upper Palaeolithic rock art in the Coa Valley, Portugal, was inscribed as a World Heritage property in 1998. It was inscribed under cultural criterion (i)& (iii). Portugal obviously has rock art of outstanding universal value and the significance of the rock art under consideration must be assessed. It is possible, that the rock art is as significant, or more significant, than that at the Coa Valley or other sites inscribed on the World Heritage List. Whatever the case, the destruction of the non renewable resource of the prehistory of mankind is a crime against history and against humanity. This year, we have seen the destruction of the Buddhist statues in the Bamyan Valley by the Taliban, this willful destruction of the World's heritage must stop.
The world doesn't need another damn dam. The Art is our human history. Protect and save it The government has an obligation to all future generations to presrve prehistoric rock art. It should not treat this responsability lightly.
The world must stop the destruction of every art object, it's our duty El patrimonio cultural no nos fue heredado por nuestros antepasados, nos fue prestado por nuestros hijos y las futuras generaciones de la humanidad, es nuestra obligación conservarlo
There are alternatives. The very least of such alternatives is a sufficient delay for a rescue archaeology project, but so much more could be done to save the rock art This would be a disaster and an archaeological tragedy
There are moments in life where we have to choose. I understand the dam will be built, but this is no reason to fill it in straight away. I hope the portuguese governement, who was so brave in the Coa issue, will understand the enourmous importance of the Guadiana rock art and archaeology, and will concede at least one more year for an open and international intensive survey. Every day of field work reveals unantended new discoveries. Who may believe that within a few months "all" will be recorded? Our colleagues working in the Guadiana, both in Portugal and Spain, work very hard, and deserve all our respect, but they are no super heroes. International support must be given. Meanwhile, I have to choose, and I choose to stand in the side of the heritage, and not the one of silence. I just returned from recording some of the many glyph sites that are going to be submerged along the Guadiana River. The glyphs are fantastic, intriguing and inspirating. It's impossible to believe that the sites were not discovered years ago by the contract archaeologists who supposedly surveyed the impact zone. Many panels are in plain view near the river. It is a vast and wonderful corpus of pristine images. To lose this to a questionable dam project that may produce almost no real benefits to the people of the Alqueva region is disgraceful. Nonetheless, the dam is going ahead without regard to the rock art. Unless officials come to their senses and stop this project now, the Guadiana prehistoric treasure willl be lost forever. Once again, an important piece of our mysterious cultural heritage will be stolen by mindless developers and short-sighted politicians. There is still a little time left to reverse course and avoid this disaster, if we all work together. Spread the word ASAP; turn up the pressure!
There is no realistic future that is not based on the past - keep our precious records
There is nothing more fragil than our historical heritage. We ought to save it not only for us, but for the next generations as well Rock art is INVALUABLE There is more than just rock art to be considered, we must preserve all mounds and standing stones.
there r promisses that can`t b satisfied and the alqueva project is one of them!.. se procurarem bem, nas gravuras, por certo lerao, mais do que uma vez. ''non bis in idem'' ! quando vemos engenheiros a tratar de arqueologia, bem como arqueologos a trabalhar em economia... so' nos faltava 'economistas... a tratar de ecologia... e' mesmo ''sete em um''?!
There's much to know about rock art,if we distroy such a big quantity we're destroying our future knowledge.The present art is an evolution of the past one,we look back to Greece and Rome,why not to Iron Age?
These resources are a part of all humanity's history. They are too precious to destroy
These sites are important to the cultural patrimony of Portugal and the EU. Please reconsider the potentially negative ecological and cultural aftereffects of this dam project. This rock art may hold the key to understanding where the Iberian people originated. This makes it even more important to preserve the petroglyphs Destroying these ancient "pieces of humanity" would be like destroying your most sacred Cathedral and your National Museum of Art with all of its contents to construct a highway. Please relocate your water project, you can.
Think of your ancestors and their sacred burial place!
this area should be protected because it's an important site of human prehistory
This dam also appears to be economically and environmentally unsound
This is a horrible project in terms of the irreparable loss of cultural heritage that will ensue. In some ways, it is as bad as the destruction of the Bhudda statues by the Taliban. Please find an alternative University of Toronto
This is a world treasure, it must be saved for all mankind
This is an extremely short-sighted plan that bodes well for no one except the contractors No permitamos que nuestra necedad nos haga olvidar de donde venimos what are they thinking?Rockart is precious A arte rupestre e' importante para a arqueologia por isso nao a destruam ! We must conserve all of our natural resources - not abuse or lay waste to them for simple short-sighted ventures with little gain. Once they are lost, they are gone forever
This is not fair
This is satanic
This is very very important to me!!!
This must stop! Associazione Archeologica Ad Quintum
This project can only make a very few, very rich but all the rest of the world only poorer. Will this be our legacy, benifit the few and "DAM" the rest of us
This project is ill-conceived and environmental impact assessments have not been fully addressed.
this si our historic right to our ancestral inheritance, a unique and beautiful example of our roots which once destroyed can neverbe returned to us and for the lack of which the world will be a poorer place
This wonderful historical site should be protected. From the Spanish side, I also undersign this petition See http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cleovoulo u/alqueva2000.htm Please do not destroy these irreplaceable treasures
Those who can't distinguish between trash and art are condemned to live in trash. But don't force the rest of us to do so Fulbright Grantee from Spain
Timeless art must survive capitalist ventures
To destroy such works is a barbarity on the same level as the destruction carried out by the Taliban of Afghanistan
to erase our past is to erase our future i support your commendable work i urge society to explore dam alternatives
To get a golden egg you will kill the golden chicken. Alqueva is nothing but an withe elephant!
todo vestigio historico merece ser preservado para ser disfrutado en el futuro
try to stop vandalism!
Unlike dams or any other modern structure built by man as a temporary convenience or solution, great art whether ancient or new is not a 'renewable resource' which can be recycled or recreated. More planning needs to be implemented on projects when the destruction of human thought, i.e. art and especially ancient art, is deemed expendable in the name of projects which have a finite lifetime of useful service measured in mere centuries, not millennia. Let us think of the board first cut too short to use and, no matter how many times it is recut, it will still be too short. Will the destruction of this ancient rock, for what are at best temporary 'fixes', justify the same logic or argument of denying the mistake of the board cut too short because of poor planning by knowingly repeating the mistake? It is best to get the true measure and worth of the project before beginning irreversible actions which are typically regretted in hindsight. Once the artwork is destroyed, it is gone, cut too short, forever Please protect this irreplacable and invaluable cultural resource
Vandalism by any other name.......
Very important preservation
vice presidente AD Quintum
Visiting prehistoric sites is a special interest of mine and I visited such sites when I travelled around Spain and Portugal two years ago. I saw the fascinating Cromeleque dos Almendres near Evora, as well as prehistoric rock art near Ronda. Thus, the preservation of the Alqueva Rock Art is of deep personal interest to me
viva la evolution, viva green party! www.now.org, www.wwf.org, www.greenpeaceusa.org, www.peta.org
we are our history, the signs of our history are parts of us... let us remember how terrible was the distruction of those ancient Buddhas, last year! The preservation of our cultural and natural heritage must be enforced at all cost
We can´t build our future with the destruction of our past
we cannot submerge our past!
We have to be careful abouth human heritage
We have to keep our heritage available for future generations
we must preserve our world heritage Please help stop the almighty dollar from its rampage over valued natural treasures that can never be replaced
We need to do this ASAP
We need Western countries to set positive examples for the developing world on the preservation of cultural resources. Do not destroy these irreplacable part of your (and our) culture
We too in Scotland have much priceless prehistoric art...not all of which is well-protected
We were shocked by your information on the dangers which means proposed Alqueva dam construction for the existence of prehistoric rock art. We rigorously support your endeavour to stop the project. We express our full solidarity
We wholeheartedly support this petition
We´ve to stop all actions of destruction art rock
We'll always fight to the last person to save our environment!!
well done! A barragem e' um grande desperdicio economico e ser for para a frente destruira' um importante recurso turistico (arte rupestre)
What a woeful situation! At least ensure that a complete a comprehensive survey and photographic record is made before continuing
What an impending tragedy! dou todo appoio a vossa açao We should unite together to fully document and protect this priceless body of humankind's cultural heritage
When it is proved that a public project of this magnitude is based on a Environmental Impact Assessment that is seriously flawed (something that is dramatical in the case of the archaeological heritage) the work on the project must be stoped, at least temporalily, so there can be time to take all the remedial measures that are necessary. There is no other rational attitude to be taken by responsible entities, in Portugal and in Europe
when something is destroyed, it is gone
Willfully destroying humanity's archives is a crime against humanity
Without history, we have have no pride Rock art is important and should be preserved
Would you destroy an El Greco or Picasso?
You don't know what you've got until it's gone attend to this matter immediately
you shouldn't touch any thing older than you are antiquities should be studied and rescued
Your country is all that you and your children's children have....Look after your country and it will look after you....Take what you need from your country, but NEED WHAT YOU TAKE. If you truly believe the dam is in the best interests of present and future generations, please consider that it could be delayed long enough to expedite the most thorough archaeological survey and rock art record possible to achieve in best current practice.....one that would stand for some time to come as a model to aspire to..... not a token attempt to wear with shame