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/ EoF News

In this month in 2009 – PT SRL block Kerumutan clears deep peat forest

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, APRIL, HCV, kerumutan, peat, protection, pulp, RGE, SRL, tiger

In 2009, a pulpwood plantation (HTI) development company affiliated with Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited (APRIL), one of the world’s largest paper companies, is clearing natural peat swamp forest with likely High Conservation Values under legally questionable circumstances.

/ EoF News

‘Rampant conversion drives deadly human-tiger conflict’

Tenurial rights, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, What consumers can do, What companies can do, conflict, death, human-tiger, kerumutan, palm oil, peat, Sumatran tiger, Tabungan Haji, THIP, tiger, worker

Death of a palm oil worker last week in concession belonging to Malaysian-based company, PT Tabung Haji Indo Plantations (PT THIP, under TH Plantations Berhad) in Pelangiran subdistrict, Riau, have voiced deep concerns on massive deforestation and threats of human-wildlife conflict.

/ EoF News

EoF: National and global Palm Oil streams likely contaminated with illegal Palm Oil from protected Sumatra tiger corridor

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Palm oil, What consumers can do, What companies can do, asian agri, biodiversity, Bukit Betabuh, Cargill, CPO, CPO mill, Darmex, EoF, FFB, illegal palm oil, palm oil, palm oil companies, RGE Group, Riau, Salim, Sarimas, sinar mas, sinarmas, Sumatran tiger, tesso nilo, tiger, tiger corridor, wilmar

EoF warns today that purchasing screens need to be installed urgently at all transfer points in the chain-of-custody from the production of oil palm fruit (fresh fruit bunches/FFB) to the final product. Illegally produced FFB appears to enter national and global supply chains much too easily.

/ EoF Press Release

Once-untouched haven for Tigers, Orangutans, Elephants being systematically targeted by APP/SMG

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, APP, Artelindo Wiratama, Asia Pulp & Paper, Barito Pacific Group, bukit tigapuluh, elephant, EoF, landscape, Lestari Asri Jaya, orangutan, pulp and paper industry, Rimba Hutani Mas, sinar mas group, SMG, Tebo Multiagro Corporation, tiger

A forest named by international scientists as one of the top 20 priority landscapes globally for the survival of the tiger is being systematically targeted for pulp production by Asia Pulp & Paper/Sinar Mas Group (APP/SMG), one of the world's largest paper suppliers.

/ EoF Press Release

Forest clearing by paper giant APP/Sinar Mas linked to 12 years of Sumatran Tiger, human fatalities

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, APP, Asia Pulp & Paper, conflict, critically endangered, forest clearing, forest crime, human-tiger, peatland, pulpwood plantation, Ruas Utama Jaya, sinar mas group, Sumatran tigers, tiger, tiger killing, wildlife

Most violent incidents between people and tigers in Sumatra’s Riau Province in the past 12 years have occurred near forested areas being cleared by paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and associated companies, under the umbrella of its holding group, Sinar Mas Group (SMG), according to an analysis of human-tiger conflict data.

/ EoF Press Release

New APP logging road threatens one of world’s biggest carbon-storing forests, tigers

Sumatra, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, acacia plantation, APP, APRIL, Asia Pulp & Paper, deforestation, Eyes on the Forest, Kampar Peninsula, logging highway, natural forest, palm oil plantations, peat swamp, pulp mills, tiger, tiger habitat

In an investigative report published today by Eyes on the Forest, evidence shows that a new logging road in Riau Province -- strongly indicated as illegally built by companies connected to Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) -- is cutting into the heart of Sumatra’s largest contiguous peatland forest, a rare hydrological ecosystem that acts as one of the planet’s biggest carbon stores.

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