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John,
The palm oil industry is behind a new scheme the Malaysian government just
announced to capture, cage and gift orangutans to countries that buy huge
amounts of its palm oil.
We need your help to shut it down for good!
Our team has taken on the palm oil industry before – and won. They’re
ready to hit the ground running…and with just 5000 of us chipping in the
cost of a coffee, we could:
* Launch a campaign targeting key trade countries in Europe and beyond,
pushing our political leaders to denounce the scheme and promote
Orangutan-friendly trade;
* Commission research to uncover, then expose the companies behind
this and other projects that would increase deforestation for palm
oil;
* Work with grassroots groups to lobby governments and build up pressure
inside Malaysia to drop this terrible scheme, stop the expansion of
plantations – and more!
Together we can keep the pressure on until we get this scheme scrapped for
good. Can you chip in the cost of a coffee to help?
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This “orangutan diplomacy” plan couldn’t be a worse idea: Orangutans are
already critically endangered – and now this will be another incentive for
producers to slash and burn more forests in Borneo to make palm oil.
Malaysia is the world’s second largest producer of palm oil. If we don’t
act now to stop this scheme the palm oil industry will get exactly what it
wants: bigger palm oil plantations right in the heart of Orangutans’
forests.
But we can stop it before it’s too late for the orangutans, and the
forests they need to live.
Ekō members have powered our fights against the palm oil industry before –
and thanks to you all we’ve won big! Like when we helped the Moi people
fight to protect a New York City-sized swathe of Indonesian rainforest
from predatory palm oil companies or when we forced Pepsi to change it's
palm oil sourcing policy. We’re ready to do it again – all we need now to
pull it off is your help. John, can you chip in the cost of
coffee to save the orangutans?
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Thanks for all that you do,
Yasmin, Deborah and the Ekō team
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More information:
[ [link removed] ]An ape for palm oil? Why critics say Malaysia’s ‘orangutan diplomacy’
plan is problematic. CNN 12 May 2024
[ [link removed] ]Malaysia to gift orangutans to countries that buy its palm
oil. Discover Wildlife 14 May 2024
[ [link removed] ]Malaysia offers trade partners 'orangutan diplomacy'. BBC 08 May 2024
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.
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