ammado recently added the ability for nonprofits to create petitions. Both ammado members and nonmembers can sign petitions. This means that nonprofits can create a petition on ammado, but collect signatures for it all over the web and not just within the ammado community.

Here are some examples of the petitions that are currently active on ammado:

Trócaire, an Irish based organisation with a global reach for human rights, is petitioning for improved action to End Climate Change. In their petition they explain that..

..carbon emissions from rich countries have contributed most to runaway climate change. Ireland is one of the worst offenders - our per capita greenhouse gas emissions are the fifth highest in the developed world. Yet it is the poor in developing countries who are being hit hardest by its impacts, even though they have contributed least to the problem. It is time for Ireland to ADMIT responsibility.Mr Gormley, I call on you as Minister for the Environment to:

• Support and strengthen the UN international adaptation fund in assisting developing countries adapt to the impacts of climate change
• Ensure adaptation funds are additional to overseas aid
• Advance legislation in the Dail that will put into law Ireland’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 3% per year

Wolf Haven, a wolf conservation organisation and sanctuary based in Washington State, are seeking support for the PAW Act. The PAW Act seeks to protect wolves from being hunted in Alaska.

Alaska is truly the USA’s last frontier. It is also the last place in the U.S. where a few hunters still use aircraft to chase and kill wolves and other animals. They shoot these animals from the air or chase them to exhaustion before landing and shooting them point blank.

More than 30 years ago, Congress put an end to aerial hunting. But Alaska is exploiting a loophole in federal law to resume the practice. Other states could soon follow suit. It’s time to stop aerial hunting once and for all.

Rep. George Miller (CA) has introduced the Protect America’s Wildlife (PAW) Act, legislation to close a federal loophole and curb Alaska’s brutal aerial hunting program — and prevent programs like it from spreading to places like the Greater Yellowstone region. But he needs your support to win passage of this wolf-saving measure.

The OUREI (Orang Utan Republik Education Initiative), an organisation which seeks to conserve the well-being of the orangutan, is petitioning to cease the illegal trade of orangutans.

The illegal trade in orangutans in Indonesia continues to be an activity that is decimating the remaining populations of the species. While it is frequently a byproduct of logging and clear cutting for plantations, the illicit trade requires the killing of the mother orangutan to obtain the infant ape. It is estimated that for every orangutan orphan that is sold at the marketplace on Java, Bali or a foreign land, six to eight orangutans die in the process. This horrific trade must stop if we are to insure the survival of wild orangutans. The purpose of this petition is to support and encourage the Government of Indonesia to put a stop to the illegal trade in orangutans by vigorously enforcing the laws of Indonesia that protect the species.

Please support each of these petitions if you find them a worthy cause. Petitions are open to members of ammado and to anonymous browsers of ammado.com.