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27 February 2008 / EoF Press Release

Destruction of Sumatra forests driving global climate change and species extinction: WWF

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, Palm oil, APP, APRIL, Asia Pulp & Paper, climate change, deforestation, extincion, gas emissions, palm oil plantations, peat swamp, pulpwood, species, Sumatran tiger, WWF Indonesia

Turning just one Sumatran province's forests and peat swamps into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and rapidly driving the province's elephants into extinction, a new study by WWF and partners has found.

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15 November 2017 / EoF Investigative Report / WWF

Investigative Report: Where are the trees?

Kalimantan, Sumatra, Tenurial rights, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, What companies can do, APP, deforestation, forest, habitat, HTI, MTH, pulp, pulp & paper, pulpwood, sinar mas, species, timber plantation, trees

In February 2013, Sinar Mas Group’s Asia Pulp & Paper (SMG/APP) published a “forest conservation policy (FCP)” announcing “an end to the...

06 December 2017 / EoF Investigative Report / WWF

Investigative Report: SMG / APP deforestation and deadly human - tiger conflict

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, What companies can do, APP, conflict, deforestation, extincion, habitat, human conflict, pulp, sinar mas, species, sumatra, Sumatran tiger, threat, tiger, wildlife

Investigations by the NGO coalition Eyes on the Forest (EoF) show that the forest clearing operations of APP and its suppliers appear to be one of the...