*[Enwl-eng] The last 800 orangutans

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                        The rarest orangutans are about to get wiped out by 
a gold mine.

                        Less than 800 Tapanuli orangutans are still alive 
and we don’t have much time to save them.

                         Sign the petition


            The last known 800 Tapanuli orangutans on Earth face having 
their Indonesian forest home ripped from beneath them -- by a British 
company’s thirst for gold.

            Jardine Matheson and its gold mining company want to destroy 
this precious ecosystem in Batang Toru, Northern Sumatra out of pure 
greed -- driving the rarest great ape to extinction.

            Just in the past month, satellite images revealed a new 
expansion of the Martable Mine into the heart of orangutan territory. But if 
we act fast with a massive public campaign exposing Jardine Matheson, we can 
stop the mine’s expansion and protect the orangutans and their habitat 
before it’s too late.

            Tell Jardine Matheson to STOP expanding its mine into orangutan 
territory NOW.

            The Tapanuli orangutan, which is the rarest great ape in the 
world, was first documented by scientists in 2017. It’s the first great ape 
to be recorded for a century and it only lives in the Batang Toru Forest in 
Indonesia. Sadly, there are only 800 of the charismatic primates left.

            Unfortunately for the newly identified and already endangered 
great ape, its forest home sits on top of a rich seam of gold - which is 
currently being mined by a British company.

            Jardine Matheson has been run by the same British family, the 
Keswicks, since the Victorian era. It bought the Martabe gold mine in 2018 
and has expanded it further into the habitat of the Tapanuli orangutan ever 
since.

            So far, the Martabe mine has already destroyed at least 30 ha of 
Tapanuli orangutan forest habitat -- an area of the Batang Toru forest 
equivalent to at least 42 football fields.

            If we don’t act now, scientists warn that the entire Tapanuli 
orangutan population could be decimated in less than 10 years.

            Tell Jardine Matheson to put the survival of the rarest great 
ape over its greed for gold.

            The survival of the Tapanuli orangutan truly is a test for 
humanity, but in reality it’s a simple one. All that Jardine Matheson needs 
to do is to halt any future expansion projects in Batang Toru and work with 
the International Union for Conservation of Nature on a plan to preserve the 
rarest great ape and its habitat.

            When SumOfUs members come together, we achieve wonders. In May 
2015, we got together to tell Jardine Matheson and its luxury hotel 
subsidiary Mandarin Oriental to save and protect the Sumatran Elephant, and 
it listened to all of us. Today, an even greater threat is looming over the 
last Tapanuli orangutans and we must ramp up the pressure on Jardine 
Matheson to do the right thing once again.

            Tell Jardine Matheson to put the survival of the rarest great 
ape over its greed for gold.


             Sign the petition
            Thanks for all that you do,
            Fatah and the team at SumOfUs



            More information:

            Revealed: Newly-discovered orangutan species is 'being driven to 
extinction' by British firm’s goldmine, The Telegraph, 6 September 2020
            The historical range and drivers of decline of the Tapanuli 
orangutan, PLOS, 4 January 2021
            IUCN calls for a moratorium on projects impacting the Critically 
Endangered Tapanuli orangutan, IUCN, 16 April 2019









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            From: Fatah Sadaoui, SumOfUs
            Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2021 1:12 PM
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