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[ [link removed] ]Two squirrel monkeys sitting in trees in the Ecuadorian Amazon

John,

For hundreds of generations, the Huaorani Tribe of Ecuador has lived in
harmony with the rainforest, alongside sloths, endangered birds, and
majestic jaguars.

But now a road has opened up access to their home – bringing in oil and
timber companies who want to bulldoze millions of trees and evict them
from their land.

It’s a humanitarian and ecological catastrophe. But we can help make it
stop.

A small but determined conservation group is working with the Huaorani
people to buy up strategic plots of land before they can be sold for
drilling and logging. If we all chip in, we can create a buffer zone that
shields vast swathes of Amazon rainforest from development – but we need
to move fast.

Every dollar will protect one square metre of rainforest – making sure it
stays in Huaorani hands forever. Can you chip in today?



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The Save the Native Forest Foundation has been doing an extraordinary job
with limited funds – choosing parcels of land that make it particularly
hard for oil and timber companies to press ahead with their destructive
plans.

But this is a David vs. Goliath fight – and faced with fierce corporate
interests, these heroes need all the help they can get to accelerate their
land purchases and advocate for better government protection.

It’s one thing to protect land. But to ensure that land remains habitable
for the communities who’ve been protecting it for the last ten thousand
years is a kind of legacy that lasts forever.

Small donations from each of us could mean thousands of protected hectares
for the people and animals who desperately need this habitat to survive –
and will help power campaigns to preserve other critically important
ecosystems. Are you in?



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



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]‘Like losing half the territory.’ Waorani struggle with loss of elder,
and of land to oil (commentary), Mongabay. 21 March 2021.

[ [link removed] ]And The Rainforest Wept: Oil And The Exploitation Of Ecuador’s
Indigenous Peoples, The Organization for World Peace. 8 June 2022.

[ [link removed] ]Indigenous Groups Are Key to Reversing Amazon Destruction, Scientific
American. 12 November 2022.

[ [link removed] ]Ecuador expands oil extraction from Amazon reserve, Phys.org. 12 April
2022.

 

 

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