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While mining has traditionally had a smaller footprint than agriculture, its impacts on communities can be devastating.  Infrastructure projects throughout the tropics open up new areas to deforestation and habitat degradation.  Mighty Earth works to address the impacts of infrastructure and mining projects in select cases throughout the world.

We’re working to stop projects like the Batang Toru Dam which is being built right in the middle of the Tapanuli orangutan’s habitat in Indonesia – threatening the survival of the world’s most endangered species of great ape.

  • Only 767

    Tapanuli orangutans remain in the wild

  • 1%

    decline in population could put the Tapanuli on the path to extinction

  • 101 ha

    of land destroyed by the Maratabe Mine in Batang Toru

Protecting the world’s rarest great ape

The Tapanuli is threatened by the construction of a huge dam project which is slicing through its home in the Batang Toru forest in Sumatra, fragmenting populations and lessening its ability to sustain the level of genetic diversity needed to remain viable.

Protect the Tapanuli

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