ABC News” Foreign Correspondent programme investigated into the operations in Sumatra, Indonesia by the paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International Ltd., better known by the more disarming acronym APRIL. The programme, titled,Sumatra’s Paper/Tiger, gives a shocking view of the ongoing destruction of Sumatra’s remaining forests. APRIL has embarked on a massive land clearing project, removing […]
Read MoreAsia Pulp & Paper (APP) announced the success of its environmental operation to save tigers: the company has moved a tiger from one part of South Sumatra province to another in order to protect it. This is supposed to prove APP’s environmental engagement. But the reality is quite different. APP broadcasted adverts to paint itself […]
Read MoreUncontrolled illegal logging has been blamed for a flash flood in Tangse district, Pidie regency, Aceh, on Thursday evening. The flood waters killed at least 12 people and displaced hundreds of families. “It’s undeniable that the disaster was caused by illegal logging and land clearing activities in the region,” Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) […]
Read MoreAustralian environmentalists have praised Fuji Xerox for cutting ties with a big paper manufacturer accused of wrongfully logging Indonesian rainforests. Fuji Xerox Australia announced on Thursday it will no longer be doing business with Asia Pacific Resources International (APRIL), which owns one of the world’s largest paper mills. Fuji Xerox managing director Nick Kugenthiran said […]
Read MoreAdvertising, advertising! Advertising can do anything, it can even make green one of the worst forest predators. It’s the paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), responsible for the conversion of over one million hectares of Indonesian rain forest in acacia plantations. In its advertising announce that it is planting a million trees a day […]
Read MoreGreenpeace, WWF and the Greens from New Zealand accused Cottonsoft to fuel rainforest destruction in Indoensia. Cottonsoft refused to supply information on its suppliers, saying Greenpeace could not provide assurance that any information supplied would be treated as commercially sensitive. But forensic evidence show that its toilet rolls contain Indonesian rainforest fibre. The rainforests that […]
Read MoreMembers of the Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago Central Kalimantan Chapter (AMAN Kalteng) have issued a statement demaning an “immediate moratorium of all REDD+ processes and investments in Central Kalimantan, until a series of conditions are met. Central Kalimantan is the pilot province under the Indonesia-Norway US$1 billion REDD deal. As a REDD pilot […]
Read More218 new plants, 43 new reptiles, 12 mammals, 580 invertebrates, 134 amphibians, 2 birds and 71 fish. That’s 1060 new species the World Wide Fund for Nature calculated found on the island of New Guinea between 1998 and 2008; roughly two new species each week. In their latest report, Final Frontier: Newly Discovered species of New Guinea (1998 […]
Read MoreOne day was enough to breach the wheak Indonesian moratorium on forest conversion. Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Its Partner Telapak documented peat forest conversion in Central Kalimantan by palm oil firm PT Sawit Perdana Menteng Jaya (Menteng PT). The on billion dollar agrement on a moratorium on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation […]
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