It sounds like a fairy tale, but there’s a place on Earth
where tigers, elephants, and orangutans coexist in the wild. And
this week we can buy a huge piece of their forest home to help
protect it...forever.
The Leuser ecosystem in Indonesia has been called one of
the most irreplaceable ecosystems on the planet. But
poaching, infrastructure projects like hydroelectric dams, and mass
deforestation fuelled by palm oil plantations are threatening to
destroy it.
That’s why our partner Rainforest Trust wants
to purchase and protect a huge chunk of this
forest...and give these critically endangered species a fighting
chance to survive. Just months ago we were able to do this
in Colombia, and protect a rare monkey species...let’s do it
again!
If 5000 of us chip in the cost of a cup of coffee in the next 24
hours, Rainforest Trust has a donor offering a 4x match on your
donation! They could secure the land quickly and get started
on their work protecting the forest. Can you help
save this irreplaceable piece of our planet?
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Our community has done so much work over the years to protect
orangutans from palm oil pillaging, and this could be a huge
new step -- actually helping to buy the land and pay for
patrols to stop deforestation and poaching.
That happens through Rainforest Trust’s local partner, Forum
Konservasi Leuser (FKL). After securing the land, FKL educates local
communities in sustainable resource use, and recruits community
members for jobs to protect the forest. These groups have
been working together for 6 years and this land purchase would
double their total protected area.
And, 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 5000 donors we need to buy this
land in the next 24 hours? Every extra penny we raise will
be used to defend wild places like this from corporations bent on
their destruction.
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