Right now, the world’s iconic orangutan
 population is hanging on by a thread as bulldozers and chainsawsclear huge tracts of forest, destroying their habitat. As the orangutan population inches closer to extinction, scientists warn we don’t have much time, but now there’s an exciting plan to save them.
To survive, orangutans need continuous forest land
 to roam for food, but intensive cultivation and logging have
 decimated their homes, leaving only isolated patches of rainforest
 intact. One crucial corridor connecting two essential habitats in the
 wetlands of Borneo is on the brink of destruction, but conservation
 NGOs and local groups have announced a brilliant plan to buy the land and protect it for good. Saving this land could be the difference between life and death for countless orangutans, but to do it, we need enough money to beat out profit-hungry companies looking to move in and destroy it.
This is exactly the kind of moment the
 Avaaz community was made for -- if enough of us give just a little
 bit, our unique, people-powered funding model will allow us to
 finance a crucial sanctuary for these precious apes and create a
 fund to defend other at-risk animals when their land is under threat.