Orangutans shot dead
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Sylvia,
25 orangutans will die today. Just like yesterday, and tomorrow.
Palm oil deforestation is killing the last orangutans on our planet, and if we don’t act now, there won’t be any left by the end of the decade.
Orangutans need trees to live. But profit-hungry companies are tearing down and burning their rainforest homes — all so the likes of Mondelez and Nestlé can put palm oil in products like snacks and detergents.
But with your help, we can save the last orangutans from cheap palm oil.
Together we’ve convinced McDonald’s, Starbucks, and PepsiCo to commit to no-deforestation palm oil policies. You can help us do it all again — a donation from you today will help roll out tried and true winning tactics to transform the whole industry — before the orangutans are gone forever. Can I count on you to chip in?
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Every year, millions of acres of pristine rainforest are destroyed — and replaced by huge palm oil plantations.
Deprived of their natural habitat, orangutans starve. When they feed off palm fruits on plantations, they’re shot. Villagers often find dead orangutans — in 2018, one unlucky orangutan was shot 130 times in Borneo.
But we’ve won fights like this before, using everything we can against these greedy companies.
If we all come together, we can force the palm oil industry to adopt and enforce stronger standards to protect the rainforest. We CAN save the orangutans before it's too late — but we can only do that with you by our side.
Can you chip in to save the orangutans?
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Every single donation will help us get the necessary intel, respond to more tip-offs, and roll out even bolder tactics to compete with Nestlé, Mondelez, and Unilever’s well-oiled, well-funded marketing machines.
Campaigning to push the palm oil industry to do the right thing costs money — whether it’s with brand-damaging ads and billboards, viral videos, or commissioning research to dig up dirt on them.
We may never match the deep pockets of Unilever and Nestlé, but when all of us chip in a little bit, we become powerful enough to take them on.
Will you donate today to help save the orangutans?
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Thanks for all that you do,
Fatah and the SumOfUs team
More information:
Palm oil firms not acting fast enough on no-deforestation vows: Report, Mongabay, 23 September 2022.
Biggest food brands 'failing goals to banish palm oil deforestation', The Guardian, 16 January 2020.
One Casualty of the Palm Oil Industry: An Orangutan Mother, Shot 74 Times, The New York Times, 29 June 2019.
Stratford vet tries to save orangutan shot 130 times, BBC, 22 September 2019.
Palm oil producers are wiping out orangutans – despite multinationals’ promises, The Guardian, 10 May 2018.
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