[ [link removed] ]A young orangutan with soft, reddish-orange fur clings to a slender
vine, a bright green leaf poking from its mouth as it curiously gazes
ahead. The blurred, verdant foliage behind it hints at the lush rainforest
habitat in which it lives.
John,
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!)?
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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 John, 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.
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Your donation will help power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting for
people and the planet.
Thanks for all that you do,
Danny and the Ekō team
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More information:
[ [link removed] ]The Leuser Ecosystem has come a long way, but its future is still
uncertain Rainforest Action Network 28 May 2025
[ [link removed] ]Leuser ecosystem: one of most biodiverse places on Earth under threat –
in pictures The Guardian 28 September 2017
Ekō 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.
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