Today we could save a species.

There are only 800 Tapanuli orangutans left on Earth, and their forest
home is being decimated for a gold mine. 

But we've beat this company before, so we know how. Chip in to fund
headline-grabbing actions that can bring them to the negotiating table --
and let's save these orangutans:

[ [link removed] ]Surprised baby Tapanuli orangutan looking straight into the camera


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John,

A gold-mining company is destroying the forest home of the last 800
Tapanuli orangutans on the planet. We have to stop them -- and we know
how.

This mining company has a glaring Achilles heel: it's owned by the same
people as Mandarin Oriental luxury hotels, a public-facing brand that
depends on a clean reputation.

In 2015, when the same company threatened the habitat of the
super-endangered Sumatran elephant, protests and media coverage at their
hotels drove them to the negotiating table.

So now we need to do it again -- chip in
$1
and we'll launch a global day of action at flagship Mandarin Oriental
hotels in Paris, London, and New York, generating a firestorm of press
that can't be ignored.

We can save this species -- but only if we act fast:



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[ [link removed] ]Yes, I'll chip in
$1
to save the last Tapanuli orangutans.

The frizzy-haired, mustachioed Tapanuli orangutan are already the most
endangered great ape on Earth. Unfortunately, their only home -- the
Batang Toru rainforest in Indonesia -- rests on a rich seam of gold, which
British conglomerate Jardine Matheson will stop at nothing to tear from
the ground.

The project has already destroyed nearly 42 football fields worth of
fragile habitat -- and satellite images have just revealed a new expansion
of the mine into the heart of orangutan territory.

If we're going to save the last Tapanuli orangutans from extinction, we
need to act fast. Their home is literally disappearing before our eyes.

Jardine Matheson can only get away with this if it stays a secret. So we
need to blow the lid off it. With your support, we can pull off a global
day of action outside Mandarin Oriental hotels and put the company's most
vulnerable brand at risk. Again -- we know this strategy works because it
has worked before! Can you help do it again?



Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card.

[ [link removed] ]Yes, I'll chip in
$1
to save the last Tapanuli orangutans.

One more thing about those actions outside the hotels that saved the
Sumatran elephant in 2015 -- they were funded by SumOfUs members! It's not
every day you can save a species. Let's do it again. 



Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card.

[ [link removed] ]Yes, I'll chip in
$1
to save the last Tapanuli orangutans.

   

Thanks for all that you do,
Fatah and the SumOfUs team



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More information:

[ Fears ]Fears rare orangutan 'being driven to extinction' by gold mine.
Independent. 7 September 2020.

[ Revealed: ]Revealed: Newly-discovered orangutan species is 'being driven to
extinction' by British firm’s goldmine. The Telegraph. 6 September 2020.

[ IUCN ]IUCN calls for a moratorium on projects impacting the Critically
Endangered Tapanuli orangutan. IUNC. 16 April 2019.

 

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