PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS

It is a fair bet that everyone reading The Ecologist is in some way or another concerned by the accelerating destruction of Britain's natural environment. It is also a fair bet that all of us from time to time have publicly or privately deplored the seeming omnipotence of huge corporations, and the irresponsibility that such power engenders.

The time has come to stop bleating about it. A handful of international mining consortia, in a desire to maximise short-term profit, are currently intent on laying waste to the Snowdonia National Park. The aim of Friends of the Earth, put simply, is to stop them.

To do this we will require money, and it is for this purpose that the SNOWDONIA DEFENCE FUND has been established.

If Snowdonia is desecrated the blame will not be entirely attributable to Lord Byers—it will be your fault too. Give us enough money to engage lawyers, planners and the like, and we'll do the rest.

By making out a cheque to the Snowdonia Defence Fund, and sending it to Friends of the Earth, 8 King Street, London, W.C.2., you will be putting your money where your mouth is—and right now it's action we want, not words.