They kiss, they cry, and they care for their babies for years – Tapanuli orangutans are astonishingly like us. But they're vanishing: just 800 remain in a single rainforest in Indonesia. And now, British billionaires are set to bulldoze their only home – with a literal 'green award' from the government. It's extinction for gold – and unless we stop it, they could disappear forever. We've stopped destruction here before. Let's do it again: The Tapanuli orangutan is one of the most intelligent, emotionally complex beings on Earth: they feel joy, fear, love and loss. And their entire species live in a single rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia. But their home could be destroyed – the British billionaire Keswick family is set to expand a gold mine that could tear down over 500 hectares of these great apes' only home. Bulldozers haven't started yet — and if we act fast, they never will. Let's come together and demand the Keswicks cancel this reckless expansion. The Keswicks own a high-end hotel chain and rely on their spotless image to keep their clientele happy – if we build a global outcry and amplify it with eye-catching actions, outreach to the hotel brand's celebrity "fans", and smart media coverage, we can force them to act! More than a million of us defended these orangutans before, we can do it again:
| | | They kiss, they cry, and they care for their babies for years – Tapanuli orangutans are astonishingly like us. But they're vanishing: just 800 remain in a single rainforest in Indonesia. And now, British billionaires are set to bulldoze their only home – with a literal 'green award' from the government. It's extinction for gold – and unless we stop it, they could disappear forever. We've stopped destruction here before. Let's do it again: | | | | | Dear friends, | | The Tapanuli orangutan is one of the most intelligent, emotionally complex beings on Earth: they feel joy, fear, love and loss.
And their entire species live in a single rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia.
But their home could be destroyed – the British billionaire Keswick family is set to expand a gold mine that could tear down over 500 hectares of these great apes' only home.
Bulldozers haven't started yet — and if we act fast, they never will. Let's come together and demand the Keswicks cancel this reckless expansion. The Keswicks own a high-end hotel chain and rely on their spotless image to keep their clientele happy – if we build a global outcry and amplify it with eye-catching actions, outreach to the hotel brand's celebrity "fans", and smart media coverage, we can force them to act! More than a million of us defended these orangutans before, we can do it again: | | | | | The Keswicks claim that their mining company is acting responsibly, but experts call it what it is: plain and simple greenwashing. The expansion of the gold mine would fragment the orangutans' forest forever, leaving them unable to find food, mates, or safety.
Join this call to the Keswicks family now – If enough of us join, we'll take out hard-hitting ads, plastering their dirty mining secrets all over the luxury spaces where they host clientele and investors. | | | | Orangutans share 97% of our DNA, but they can't stand up to corporate giants and misguided governments alone. They need our voices. Five years ago, over a million of us came together to stop a dam that threatened their survival – and we won. We bought the orangutans precious time, and they survived. Now they need us one more. The beautiful Batang Toru forest belongs to orangutans, not excavators. Let's shine a global spotlight on this scandal, and help save the last of their kind.
With fierce hope and solidarity,
Alice, Marco, Antonia, Nate, Huiting, and the whole team at Avaaz | | | | | | |
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