A new report from the Anti Forest Mafia Coalition/Koalisi Anti Mafia Hutan is calling on the Indonesian government not to destroy natural forests in its efforts to protect peatlands after an analysis of its land swap policy showed risks for further deforestation. The land swap policy is intended to compensate timber plantation concessions (Hutan Tanaman […]
Read MoreThe annual report summarising the international activities of the Environmental Paper Network – International is now online here. This report summarises our activities around the world, excluding North America and China, where our sister networks manage their own affairs. Our budget for the year was slightly down on the previous year, and it is amazing […]
Read MoreReposted from Auriga In 2015, following Indonesia’s disastrous forest and peatland fires, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) – Indonesia’s largest pulp and paper producer – denied owning or controlling two forest plantation companies in Sumatra that had experienced some of the worst burning. While acknowledging that PT Bumi Mekar Hijau and PT Sebangun Bumi Andalas […]
Read MoreAsia Pulp and Paper (APP), Indonesia’s largest pulp and paper company, is still linked to forest destruction, according to new mapping analysis completed by Greenpeace International. Almost 8,000 hectares of forest and peatland has been cleared since 2013 in two concessions which are linked to APP and its parent company the Sinar Mas Group. Greenpeace International […]
Read MoreAccording to the website Foresthints.news, Asia Pulp and Paper subsidiary PT BMH has expanded its acacia plantations in South Sumatra on an area equivalent to around 500 soccer fields, including areas targeted by the Peat Restoration Agency for peat recovery, following the fires of 2015. Foresthints conducted spatial calculations, based on time-series data sourced from […]
Read MoreA new pulp mill is planned in Tartu, Estonia, the second largest city in the country. The mill will produce 700,000 tonnes of pulp and it will consume around a quarter of the total country’s timber production. This increase threatens to be the fatal stroke for Estonian forests, which are already being exhausted by the increasing rate […]
Read MoreReport shows risks of a dangerously expanding global paper industry 26 April 2018 – A new report from the Environmental Paper Network reveals the social and environmental developments in an industry that is expanding to produce new products – such as tissue disposables, food service and e-commerce packaging – and into new markets, as global […]
Read MoreAn Indonesian coalition of NGOs has released a joint statement to call for improved transparency and sustainability criteria in the new Indonesian government policy to protect peatlands. The NGO coalition (Gemapala Fakfa, Belantara Papua, Auriga, Eyes on The Forest, WWF Indonesia, Wetlands International, ELSAM, Yayasan Pusaka, HaKi and Kemitraan) expressed its support for the Indonesian […]
Read MoreBeing heard globally Jikalahari is one of EPN’s key Indonesian member organisations and its co-ordinator, Woro Supartinah, is on the steering group of EPN International. Jikalahari is well known for managing the ‘Eyes on the Forest’ web portal, which has consistently highlighted the threats from the Indonesian paper industry. Behind that visible project is a […]
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