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[ [link removed] ]Baby orangutan eating a leaf in the wild

John,

It sounds like a fairy tale, but there’s a place on Earth where tigers,
elephants, and orangutans coexist in the wild. And this week, we can buy a
huge piece of their forest home to help protect it...forever.

The Leuser ecosystem in Indonesia has been called one of the most
irreplaceable ecosystems on the planet. But poaching, infrastructure
projects like hydroelectric dams, and mass deforestation fueled by palm
oil plantations are threatening to destroy it.

That’s why our partner Forum Konservasi Leuser (FKL) wants to purchase and
protect a huge chunk of this forest...and give these critically endangered
species a fighting chance to survive. Two years ago, we helped them buy a
huge chunk of forest, but now they want to buy much more -- expanding the
area they work in by 8x!!

If 5000 of us chip in the cost of a cup of coffee or more, FKL could
quickly start securing the next tracts of land and get started on their
work protecting it. Can you help save this irreplaceable piece of our
planet (again!)? 



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Our community has done so much work over the years to protect orangutans
from palm oil pillaging, and this has been a huge part of it -- actually
helping to buy the land and pay for patrols to stop deforestation and
poaching.

That happens through our local partner, Forum Konservasi Leuser. After
securing the land, FKL educates local communities in sustainable resource
use and recruits community members for jobs to protect the forest. We
already helped them double their protected area, and now we can help them
do even more as they expand 8x larger, piece by piece!

And John, this area critically needs protection. It isn’t
just wildlife. The Leuser Ecosystem has a crucial role in fighting climate
change, storing massive amounts of carbon (the area we could buy stores
almost 350,000 metric tons!). When these areas are hacked and set on fire
instead of protected, thousands of years of stored carbon are released. In
bad fire years, it’s been estimated as comparable to the fossil fuel
emissions of all of Western Europe!

This is an incredibly rare opportunity to work with others around the
world to buy a piece of a critically endangered ecosystem and know you’ve
helped protect it.

Will you be one of the 5000 donors we need to buy their next tract of land
quickly? The more we raise, the more they can buy right away – and every
extra penny will be used to defend wild places like this from corporations
bent on their destruction.



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  Thanks for all that you do,  
Danny and the Ekō team



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]Protect Indonesia's Leuser Ecosystem. Rainforest Action Network.

 

Anything extra raised will power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting
for people and the planet.

 

Ekō is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.

Please help keep Ekō strong by chipping in $3. [link removed]