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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"SilverAge LC BB";color:#0070C0'>We can save the Bonobos, and it would be a terrible loss if we didn't!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"SilverAge LC BB";color:#0070C0'>Please share!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"SilverAge LC BB";color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Yasmin Aslam, SumOfUs [mailto:us@sumofus.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 08, 2022 12:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> Amy Hendrickson <amyh@texnology.com><br><b>Subject:</b> The last home of the Bonobos<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:1.0pt;color:white'>Securing a rainforest could save this species. </span><o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:white'><tr><td width=30 style='width:22.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica Neue"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:white;max-width: 700px!important;min-width: 100%'><tr style='height:9.0pt'><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:9.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;overflow-wrap: break-word'><div><p style='line-height:150%'><a href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/592479?t=1&akid=100142%2E12836126%2ERH4Bk-"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=400 height=292 id="_x0000_i1029" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.sumofus.org/images/editor-2021-12-16-10.jpg" alt="Young bonobo eating some leaves"></span></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>Activist,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>A 20-year <strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica Neue"'>ban on industrial logging will soon be lifted in the Congo Basin</span></strong>, opening up the only home of endangered bonobos to even greater threats from deforestation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>Without their rainforest home, these gentle apes won't survive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>But there’s a surefire way to save these bonobos: <strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica Neue"'>secure official protection for 2 million acres of this rainforest</span></strong>, and defend it from loggers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>And <strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica Neue"'>we can do this for just $1 per acre!</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>If enough of us chip in $4, our friends at the <strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica Neue"'>Bonobo Conservation Initiative can start securing tens of thousands of acres of critical bonobo habitat</span></strong> -- can you help save these bonobos?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><em><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>If you’ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately.</span></em><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><a href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/598170?amount=4¤cy=USD&t=7&akid=100142%2E12836126%2ERH4Bk-"><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Montserrat;color:white;text-transform:uppercase;background:#ED3224;text-decoration:none'>Donate $4 now</span></b></a><a href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/598171?currency=USD&t=8&akid=100142%2E12836126%2ERH4Bk-"><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Montserrat;color:#00ABBD'>Donate another amount</span></b></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>The Bonobo Conservation Initiative has been building something truly magical in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: <strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica Neue"'>the “Bonobo Peace Forest.” </span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>It's a safe haven for bonobos, but it's so much more than just that. It also stores billions of tons of carbon each year -- carbon that would otherwise be choking our planet. And it's a network of nature reserves <strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica Neue"'>managed by local communities</span></strong>, providing sustainable sources of income.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>But with industrial logging about to skyrocket in the Congo Basin, we need to move fast.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>The Bonobo Conservation Initiative is the <strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica Neue"'>only international organisation solely dedicated to protecting wild bonobos and their rainforest habitat</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>Every one of us chipping in today can <strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica Neue"'>have a lasting impact on the survival of the bonobos -- can we count on you, Amy?</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><em><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>If you’ve saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately.</span></em><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><a href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/598170?amount=4¤cy=USD&t=11&akid=100142%2E12836126%2ERH4Bk-"><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Montserrat;color:white;text-transform:uppercase;background:#ED3224;text-decoration:none'>Donate $4 now</span></b></a><a href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/598171?currency=USD&t=12&akid=100142%2E12836126%2ERH4Bk-"><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Montserrat;color:#00ABBD'>Donate another amount</span></b></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'><img border=0 width=1 height=1 id="_x0000_i1028" src="https://act.sumofus.org/o.gif?akid=100142.12836126.RH4Bk-" alt="https://act.sumofus.org/o.gif?akid=100142.12836126.RH4Bk-"></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>Thanks for all that you do, <br>Yasmin, Lacey and the team at SumOfUs<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>More information:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><a href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/592464?t=19&akid=100142%2E12836126%2ERH4Bk-"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Montserrat;color:#00ABBD'>World’s second biggest rainforest will soon reopen to large-scale logging. National Geographic</span></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>. National Geographic. 29 September 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><a href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/592135?t=20&akid=100142%2E12836126%2ERH4Bk-"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Montserrat;color:#00ABBD'>Protecting the great ape whose culture is peace</span></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>. UN Development Programme In Africa & Conservation. 2 March 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><a href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/591359?t=21&akid=100142%2E12836126%2ERH4Bk-"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Montserrat;color:#00ABBD'>Bonobo conservation stymied by deforestation, human rights abuses</span></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>. Mongabay. 2 October 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><a href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/591360?t=22&akid=100142%2E12836126%2ERH4Bk-"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Montserrat;color:#00ABBD'>Bonobo Peace Forest</span></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#4B4B4B'>. 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