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Illegal timber trafficking is destroying vital habitat for the world's

remaining orangutans.

 

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Dear Azam,

 

Across the world, illegal timber operations are decimating vital habitat for

orangutans and other wildlife. In fact, *a recent U.N. report predicts that

orangutans could be extinct within the next 20 years* -- the victims of

habitat destruction due mainly to illegal timber harvests and land

conversion.

 

That's the bad news. The good news is that we have an opportunity in *the

next 48 hours* to help save orangutans and other wildlife threatened by

illegal logging.

 

*Take action now! Urge your Senators to support the Wyden-Alexander

Amendment to the Farm Bill, an important provision to curb illegal logging

and protect wildlife habitat around the

world.*<http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=MNFQgOqht65TcCzPrRwWag..>

 

As Director of Defenders of Wildlife's international conservation programs,

I know the devastating impacts that illegal logging has on habitat for our

endangered orangutans.

 

These primates -- one of our closest genetic relatives in the animal kingdom

-- are rapidly being driven to extinction. Illegal logging has recently

taken place in 37 of Indonesia's 41 national parks, some of the last

strongholds of the endangered orangutan.

 

*Send a message to your Senators now and urge them to do something to stop

illegal timber harvests that are driving orangutans toward

extinction.*<http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=faEiELyh3sRQxSdtHmOXCg..>

 

The insatiable demand for cheap wood products and luxury hardwoods in the

United States, Europe and Japan is driving illegal logging operations

worldwide. *Yet America has no law against importing illegally harvested

wood into the U.S.*

 

The Wyden-Alexander Amendment would give enforcement agencies a powerful

tool in the fight against illegal timber traffickers by making it a crime to

knowingly import, sell, buy or transport illegally-sourced wood and wood

products.

 

*But your Senators may never have a chance to vote on this important

amendment unless you take action right away.*

 

*Help save the forest homes of the world's remaining orangutans. Please send

a message to your Senators right now and urge them to support the

Wyden-Alexander Amendment.

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This amendment is our best chance this year to fight illegal timber

trafficking and save the orangutans that are threatened by it, but *we don't

have much time*. The Senate is expected to decide on whether to allow debate

on the Wyden-Alexander Amendment by *the end of the week*.

 

*Our orangutans can't afford to wait. Please send your message

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Sincerely,

 

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