John,

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

The Leuser Ecosystem of Indonesia has been called one of the most irreplaceable ecosystems on the planet. But poaching, plans for infrastructure projects like hydroelectric dams, and mass deforestation are threatening to destroy it.

That’s why our partner Forum Konservasi Leuser (FKL) wants to purchase and protect massive amounts of this forest...and give these critically endangered species a fighting chance to survive. Twice we’ve helped them buy huge swathes of land, but they’re now looking to expand the area we helped them buy already by almost 50x!!

If enough of us chip in, 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 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 more than double their protected area. Now we can help them do even more, as they look to buy a piece 50x bigger than last time!

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 critically endangered ecosystem and know you’ve helped protect it.

Will you be one of the 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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