John,
As you read this, palm oil companies are burning the rainforest home of
orangutans to a crisp. Why? To make way for yet more palm oil plantations.
Unilever -- maker of Dove soap and Magnum ice cream -- is STILL buying
palm oil from these rainforest destroyers.
Unilever is hoping its links to the forest fires go unnoticed. You can
change that.
Your donation today will pay for a top video squad to capture drone
footage of the raging fires, leak it to journalists -- and expose
Unilever’s greed.
We don’t have a moment to lose -- can you chip in?
Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card.
[ [link removed] ]Yes! I'll chip in to stop the orangutan apocalypse.
Thanks for all that you do,
Fatah, Anne and the team at SumOfUs
Here's the email I sent yesterday with more information:
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Unilever is driving orangutans to the brink of extinction. The
multinational’s greed for cheap palm oil is directly responsible for
burning down the rainforests where orangutans live.
Can you chip in to save the orangutans and expose Unilever’s greed?
Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card.
[ [link removed] ]Donate
$1
now
John,
Fires are raging in Indonesia, burning forests to the ground to make way
for palm oil plantations. As a result, critically endangered orangutans
are on the brink of extinction.
Unilever buys more than 1 million tonnes of palm oil each year, and uses
it in everything from Dove soap to Knorr soup. The corporate giant has
promised to source its palm oil sustainably by 2020 -- but has failed to
live up to this promise.
So far, the forest fires aren’t a big news story yet. We can change that.
We need to hire a video squad on the ground in Indonesia to capture
footage of the forest fires -- armed with professional filming equipment
and drones that can withstand the heat. Once we have the footage, we can
leak it to journalists -- creating a public outcry that will link Unilever
to the forest fires and force it to clear up its act.
Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card.
[ [link removed] ]Can you chip in
$1
to stop the orangutan apocalypse?
These forest fires are no accident -- the burning is a deliberate act.
Palm oil trees are planted in monocultures, drenched in toxic pesticides.
The land quickly becomes infertile, and then new forests have to be
cleared so palm oil producers can keep reaping in a profit. These are
ancient forests that we’ll never get back.
The Covid crisis means that journalists are finding it harder to travel to
remote locations and report on the forest fires and the illegal slash and
burn practices that palm oil producers are using. That’s why it’s so
important we turn a spotlight onto this crisis.
Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card.
[ [link removed] ]Can you chip in
$1
for filming equipment so that we can get footage off the ground and expose
Unilever’s complicity in the forest fires?
You've got an incredible track record of winning against palm oil
offenders. Since 2014 we've forced companies like McDonald’s, Dunkin’
Donuts, and Starbucks to commit no-deforestation palm oil policies.
Together, we can clean up the palm oil industry and force Unilever to cut
deforestation from its supply chains. This is the only way we can save
these ancient forests and the homes of the last orangutans.
Will you join us now and chip in to power-up an emergency campaign to save
the orangutans?
Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card.
[ [link removed] ]Yes! I'll chip in to stop the orangutan apocalypse.
Thanks for all that you do,
Fatah, Anne and the team at SumOfUs
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More information:
[ [link removed] ]Biggest food brands 'failing goals to banish palm oil deforestation'.
The Guardian. 17 January 2020.
[ [link removed] ]My palm oil problem: how can I save orangutans? The Times. 20 January
2020.
[ [link removed] ]The global demand for palm oil is driving the fires in Indonesia.
Quartz. 18 September 2019.
SumOfUs 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 SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3. [link removed]
