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[ [link removed] ]Aerial view of the Leuser Ecosystem

John,

How cool is this -- this week we can help buy thousands of acres of
threatened Indonesian tropical forest and give a fighting chance to
critically endangered orangutans, tigers, and more!

Thanks to the rampant destruction of their forest home for palm oil
plantations, there’s only about 10,000 of the charismatic Sumatran
orangutans left in the wild -- and deforestation is picking up speed.

But our partner Forum Konservasi Leuser (FKL) is on the cusp of purchasing
and protecting -- forever! -- critical areas of land that will give these
apes the space they need to recover and thrive.

If 5000 of us chip in the cost of a cup of coffee in the next 24 hours,
FKL can get started securing the land immediately and expand their work
protecting the forest. Can you help save these Sumatran orangutans?



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$3
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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] ]Forum Konservasi Leuser

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

[ [link removed] ]Deforestation for palm oil continues in Indonesia’s ‘orangutan
capital’. Mongabay.22 September 2023.

 

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]