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!)?
I'll donate $3I'll donate $4 I'll donate $5I'll donate $9I'll donate another amount
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 Vladimir, 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.
I'll donate $3I'll donate $4 I'll donate $5I'll donate $9I'll donate another amount
Your donation will help power Ekō
and our campaigns worldwide fighting for people and the
planet.
