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Asia Pulp and Paper is planning a massive expansion of production in India. Where will the timber come from?

The growing demand for paper products in India has attracted the attention of the major Indonesian paper company, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) which is now planning to build new pulp & paper mill with the capacity of 5 million tons per year in Andhra Pradesh, India. The company has signed a memorandum of understanding […]

Asia Pulp and Paper admits links to controversial suppliers, but still fails to be transparent

A coalition of Indonesian and international NGOs released a report today bringing to light that Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has acknowledged links to controversial suppliers but continues to fail to be transparent. The Indonesian paper giant recently released a document (APP Assessment on its Links with Industrial Forest Plantations in Indonesia) aimed to dispel […]

NGOs raise serious concerns six years into Asia Pulp and Paper’s commitment to reforms

Today, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) celebrates the sixth anniversary of APP’s Forest Conservation Policy (FCP). For six years NGOs have been monitoring the FCP implementation and providing suggestions for improvement of the policy as well as its implementation. With NGOs’ intervention, APP made an additional commitment, to conserve and restore 1 million hectares of […]

More than 50 NGOs call for justice for Rosane Santiago Silveira

The Environmental Paper Network and its members are extremely concerned by the torture and murder of Rosane Santiago Silveira, a mother and environmental and human rights activist who was killed in Brazil on January 29, 2019, and send our deepest condolences to her family. This weekend, more than 50 non-governmental organizations sent a letter seeking […]

The Paper and Packaging Boom: A Growing Wave Of Pulp Production Threatens The World’s Forests And Climate

At a time when forest protection to fight climate change is a clear and critical opportunity, we are seeing plans and investments for quite the opposite. After over two years of stagnation, the virgin pulp industry is booming. The list that follows below, highlights the many specific examples of the virgin fibre pulp capacity expansion […]

More peatland fire disasters for Indonesia?

New report says pulp companies and government are not transparent with restoration plans for fire-prone peatlands, and its analysis shows the restoration obligations of pulp producers APP and APRIL. In 2016, the government of Indonesia announced a new regulation aimed to protect peatlands in response to the massive fires that burnt 2.6 million hectares of […]

New analysis of satellite images shows APP clearing reforested land and draining peat

Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has been found in a new satellite imagery analysis by Foresthints.news to have exploited recovering tropical peatlands, which were previously drained by the company more than a decade ago, for pulpwood expansion. The practice of re-draining these recovering peatlands was carried out by PT Arara Abadi, an APP-owned company and timber […]

Indonesian communities say Asia Pacific Rayon represents a new threat to Riau peatlands

Asia Pacific Rayon (APR), a new company developed to produce viscose for the textile industry, is the sister company of the Indonesian pulp & paper giant APRIL (Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd) and part of the conglomerate Royal Golden Eagle (RGE). APR built recently a new line to process Viscose Staple Fiber (VSF) – […]

China Development Bank backs out of financing Sinar Mas purchase of Eldorado

It did not make the headlines. In fact, it was not even mentioned in most of the articles about the broken contract between J&F Investimentos and Paper Excellence on the sale of Eldorado Brasil Celulose SA. But the most interesting part in the otherwise predictable fight between two problematic paper giants over a mill is […]