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To Ben Keswick, Executive Chairman of Jardine Matheson and all shareholders and investors:

As citizens from across the world, we urge you to save the last 800 Tapanuli Orangutans from extinction by cancelling the expansion of Jardine Matheson’s gold mine in the Batang Toru forest. Cancel this harmful project and become a true champion for nature. The fate of this entire species rests in your hands.
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Save the Tapanuli orangutans!

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:
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