Many organizations and individuals have created online petitions to save the Sundarbans. The Sundarbans, the world’s most famous mangrove forest, is under threat because the Bangladesh government is determined to build a coal-based power plant within 14 km of its location. Environmentally concerned people, organizations, and groups are against building a coal-based power plant there. Besides online petitions, there have been street protests and long-march seminars to convince the Bangladesh government to stop it or think of alternative safe, sound, sustainable, and less risky methods.
An online petition is not a very Bangladeshi way of protesting. The method is new, civil, and technology-dependent. Therefore, most of the petitions for saving the Sundarbans were initiated, coordinated, and campaigned by non-Bangladeshi entities like Friends of Earth, Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network, Center for Biological Diversity, EcoSikh, Brown, and Green: South Asian Americans for Climate Justice, etc. Some Bangladeshi groups joined and supported them. Here is a list of the online efforts. Some petitions for saving the Sundarbans are already closed, and some are still active.
Sierra Club
Petition Title: UNESCO: List the Sundarbans as a World Heritage Site in Danger!
Status: Current
Link: Click here
360.org
Petition Title: UNESCO: Stop the coal plant, save the Sundarbans
Status: Current
Link: Click here
Avaaz
Petition Title: UNESCO – Help save the Sundarbans!
Status: Current
Link: Click here
Rainforest Action Network
Petition Title: Stop the Ex-Im Bank from exporting fossil fuel pollution!
Status: Current. End on November 2nd
Link: Click here
Rainforest Action Network
Petition Title: Ex-Im Bank: Don’t Wreck the Sundarbans
Status: Current
Link: Click here
Save the Planet
Petition Title: Stop the plans for Rampal Coal Power Plant: Save Royal Bengal Tiger
Status: Closed
Link: Click here
Causes.com
Petition Title: Save Sundarban
Status: Closed
Link: Click here
Global Environment Activists
Petition Title: Stop Power Plant, Save Sundarbans
Status: Closed
Link: Click here
Center for Biological Diversity
Petition Title: Say No to Big Coal in Bangladesh’s Mangroves
Status: Closed
Link: Click here
Rainforest-rescue
Petition Title: Keep coal power plants out of tiger country!
Status: Current
Link: Click here
ForceChange
Petition Title: No Coal Plants in Tiger Habitat
Status: Current
Link: Click here
Bank Track
Petition Title: EXIM Bank India: Don’t Wreck the Sundarbans
Status: Current
Link: Click here
British Parliament
Petition Title: Stop Rampal Power Station project in Bangladesh and save wildlife
Status: Rejected
Link: Click here
Personal Effort
Nyack Clancy
Petition Title: Save the Sundarbans Bengal Tigers
Status: Current
Link: Click here
Indranil S. India
Petition Title: Save Sundarbans – Stop Rampal
Status: Current
Link: Click here
Marzia Israt
Petition Title: Stop coal-based Rampal power plant and save Sundarban
Status: Current
Link: Click here
Asif Rayhan Anik
Petition Title: Save Sundarban and its Habitats
Status: Current
Link: Click here
Tarequl Islam Munna
Petition Title: Save the Sundarbans
Status: Current
Link: Click here
Perhaps more petitions are available online to save the Sundarbans of Bangladesh. I’m not sure how effective they are regarding policy influence in Bangladesh. In the UK, 10,000 signatures on an issue will receive a government response, and 100,000 signatures will be considered for a debate in Parliament. In the USA, the White House will give an official response if an issue gathers 100,000 signatures in 30 days.