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Recent news on Indonesian forest crimes, and related developments on NGO activities, company and government actions, changes to environmental rules, lawsuits and acquittals. Also features press releases and blog posts.
/ EoF News

Perambahan picu karhutla Tesso Nilo --Berita dan galeri foto
/ EoF Press Release

Restorasi gambut tak menentu, peraturan baru menguntungkan siapa?

24 Jun 2007 / EoF News

Investigative Report February 2007 released, APP still destroys forest

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

Pekanbaru (EoF News) – Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of three environmental NGOs in Riau, Sumatra releases its Investigative Report February 2007 today. The EoF...

21 Jun 2007 / EoF News

Minister of Forestry blames Riau Police over corporate crimes

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

Pekanbaru (EoF News)--- The Minister of Forestry Malam S. Kaban slammed the Riau Police over probing against forest crimes allegedly perpetrated by companies saying the...

18 Jun 2007 / EoF News

Police probe 10 APP's companies over illegal logging, forest crimes

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

Pekanbaru (EoF News)-- Environmentalists in Riau urged the provincial police to immediately probe the illegal logging allegedly committed by Asia Pulp & Paper's...

15 Jun 2007 / EoF News

APP's contractor hires child, workers eat monkey to survive

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

Pekanbaru (EoF News)-- Local newspapers reported today that a contractor working for Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) subsidiary's concession in Kampar district, Riau, hired a...

13 Jun 2007 / EoF News

District Administration stops APP subsidiary's operation

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss,

Pekanbaru (EoF News)-- Rokan Hilir district administration told PT Ruas Utama Jaya, a company associated to Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), to stop its questionable logging...

12 Jun 2007 / EoF News

World's tigers on "catastrophic" path to extinction

Biodiversity loss,

(By Nita Bhalla, Reuters; New Delhi, June 8, 2007) --- The world's wild tigers are on a "catastrophic" path to extinction as numbers continue to decline because of...

06 Jun 2007 / EoF Press Release

Idisa cancels relations with APP

Sumatra, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss,

The day before the International Day for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace publicly congratulated Idisa Papel, part of the Portuguese Irapa group, on its decision to...

04 Jun 2007 / EoF News

APP commits illegal logging as found by EoF Investigation Dec.2006

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

Pekanbaru (EoF News) – Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of three environmental NGOs in Riau, Sumatra releases its Investigative Report December 2006 today. The EoF...

29 May 2007 / EoF News

Male elephant dead in Bukit Tigapuluh block

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

Pekanbaru (EoF News)-- A Sumatran elephant was found dead in Bukit Tigapuluh forest landscape, Riau, where his tusks were probably taken out by poachers.

28 May 2007 / EoF News

Environmental concerns mount as palm oil production surges

Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss, Palm oil,

Key points on the environmental impact of palm oil (mongabay.com, May 15, 2007)-- The booming market for palm oil is driving record production but fueling rising concerns...