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Open Letter From Indonesian NGOs to the Government of The Republic of Indonesia, Buyers, Customers, and Banks of Companies Related to Forest Fires in Indonesia

Forest fires Indonesia continue to burn on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, and are on track to release more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire US economy this year. Today, a coalition of Indonesian NGOs today sent an open letter to the government and to international buyers of pulp and paper and palm oil from Indonesia. […]

APRIL clearing High Conservation Value Forest shows Greenomics Indonesia Report

A new report has been released by Greenomics Indonesia that finds Indonesia’s second largest pulp and paper supplier, Asia Pacific Resources International Ltd. (APRIL), has cleared High Conservation Value Forests (HCVF), in breach of its own policy and legislation, as the illegal clearance of legally-established HCVF areas constitutes a serious violation of forestry law. The […]

Asia Pulp and Paper Releases Peatland Management Plan

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”3.18.8″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] Today Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) announced it is committing to retire approximately 7,000 hectares of commercial plantation areas to protect threatened carbon-rich peatlands. At a live event in Jakarta earlier today, APP, along with independent research institute Deltares, presented its […]

Eyes on the Forest Finds APRIL Supplier Violating Company’s New Policy in Borneo

Originally posted by Eyes on the Forest A supplier of Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) in North Kalimantan cleared natural forest on peatland in violation of APRIL’s recently launched 2nd version of the Sustainable Forest Management Policy (SFMP). Landsat satellite images (see images below) of the PT Adindo Hutani Lestari (AHL) concession taken on […]

Over 80% of future deforestation confined to just 11 places, says WWF report

Eleven places in the world – 10 of which are in the tropics – will account for over 80 per cent of forest loss globally by 2030, according to research released today by WWF. Up to 170 million hectares of forest could be lost between 2010 and 2030 in these “deforestation fronts” if current trends […]

Greenomics Indonesia releases evidence APRIL ignores its own sustainability policy

A spatial analysis conducted by Greenomics Indonesia between January and March 2015 (see appendix in PDF here) shows clearly that APRIL has been clearing forested peatlands on its concession on Padang island in Sumatra. Based on the terms of APRIL’s Sustainable Forest Management Policy (SFMP) – which was launched on 28 January 2014 – the […]

WWF: Many paper products in the German retail sector contain tropical wood

Paper products from the German retail sector often contain tropical wood, as analyses by WWF have revealed. Over the past few months, the environmental protection organisation, WWF, got the composition of a total 144 different products, including writing paper, note books, photo albums and address books examined. The results showed that tropical wood was found […]

Rainforest Alliance Evaluates APP on 2nd Anniversary of Forest Commitment

Today, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) released the first independent evaluation of its progress to implement its commitment to zero deforestation and its Forest Conservation Policy (FCP) announced in February 2013. The evaluation concludes that the company has made moderate progress towards meeting its commitments, but it also highlighted a number of shortcoming that need […]

Overwhelming evidence of APRIL’s forest destruction in Indonesia

The case against Indonesia’s largest forest destroyer, APRIL, grows stronger by the day. Indonesian NGOs have found even more evidence that the company and its suppliers are trashing rainforests and are about to put endangered orangutans at even greater risk. At the start of the year, APRIL announced a new sustainable forest management policy. But […]