APRIL to continue clearing carbon-dense forests it says lack high conservation value. An excavator piles natural forest logs at a log pond inside a PT. Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper…
Actor Ian Somerhalder in a public service announcement for #WhatsInYourPaper. An alliance of more than 120 environmental and human rights organizations today announced a global push to transform the paper…
Recent large-scale clearance of peatland forest inside a PT. Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper (PT RAPP) pulpwood concession on Pulau Pedang. © Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace. Asia Pacific Resources International…
Active clearance of peatland forest inside a PT. Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper (PT RAPP) pulpwood concession on Pulau Pedang, Bengkalis Regency, Riau Province taken 05/20/2014. PT RAPP is a…
Forest destruction in Riau Province, Indonesia on 06/23/2013. © Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace. Haze caused by burning peat forests in Indonesia kills an average of 110,000 people per year and…
Zamzami in Siak, Riau on May 23, 2014. Photos by Rhett Butler. Indonesia has become notorious for its high rate of forest loss, but there are nascent signs of progress.…
Two heavy equipments operating in PT. Adindo Hutani Lestari (AHL) Sesayap Sector concession. Photo taken by GAPETA Borneo at 3°33'21.7948"N, 117°4'25.8401"E on 19 April 2014. Environmental group WWF has accused…
Five industrial plantation forest concessions that supply timber to PT Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) in South Sumatra – locally known as HTI concessions – are areas of high conservation…
Cleared acacia plantation in Riau, Sumatra, with native peat forest in the background. The pulp and paper sector has been one of the biggest drivers of deforestation in parts of…
(reporting by Ayat S Karokaro, Indra Nugraha and Sapariah Saturi) Felled logs with eucalyptus trees in the background. Photo: Paragraph S Karokaro It was a cool and foggy day in…
Harvested plantation with rainforest in the background in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. Luxury fashion brand Stella McCartney has pledged to eliminate fabrics sourced via destruction of old-growth and…
An area of rainforest APP has pledged to protect in Riau Province, on the island of Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), Indonesia's largest pulp…
Natural forest that has been cleared by PT Triomas FDI on the Kampar Peninsula. All that remains are young ramin trees. The rest of the timber was transported to APRIL’s…
1/3 Indonesia's land mass allocated for industrial development Forest clearing within areas zoned for timber, logging, oil palm, and mining accounted for nearly 45 percent of deforestation in Indonesia between…
H&M, Zara commit to cutting rainforest destruction out of clothing production Borneo rainforest H&M and Zara/Inditex, two of the world's largest clothing companies, today pledged to eliminate old-growth forest destruction…
This is part of a series of articles on market transformation in the pulp and paper and palm oil sectors in Indonesia. Drainage canal that forms the boundary between the…
This is part of a series of articles on market transformation in the pulp and paper and palm oil sectors in Indonesia. Small-holder clearing for oil palm Indonesia's Riau Province…
This is part of a series of articles on market transformation in the pulp and paper and palm oil sectors in Indonesia. APP acacia plantation in Riau, Indonesia in February…
This is an expanded version of A New Leaf in the Rainforest: Longtime Villain Vows Reform, which ran on Yale e360 last week. This story was originally developed in January…
Satellite image, taken on March 7, 2014 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite, shows fires outlined in red burning on Sumatra. Indonesian Pulp & paper…
Click image for interactive map Fires in Sumatra's Riau province have spiked to levels unseen since last June, finds new analysis from the World Resources Institute (WRI) that reveals widespread…
Acacia plantation in Riau Province, Indonesia. The former governor of Indonesia’s Riau province has been sentenced to 14 years in prison and ordered to pay almost $90,000 in fines for…
New oil palm plantation in the GSK landscape. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. An important reserve that contains a block of fast-dwindling lowland swamp forest in Riau Province is facing…
Red Leaf-monkey (Presbytis rubicunda) in Sabah, Malaysia. Photos by Rhett A. Butler Four species of langurs monkeys that are endemic to Borneo lost more than a tenth of their habitat…
Indonesian pulp and paper giant talks forest conservation policy with critics Lafcadio Cortesi, Rainforest Action Network (RAN); Scott Poynton, The Forest Trust (TFT); Bustar Maitar, Greenpeace; Rhett Butler, Mongabay; Aida…
Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd (APRIL), Indonesia's second-largest pulp and paper producer, has announced a new environmental policy that aims to stem criticism about its forestry practices, which include…
Rainforest Alliance has agreed to conduct an audit of Asia Pulp & Paper's progress in implementing the zero deforestation policy the forestry giant signed last year. The deal, announced Thursday…
Peat canal drained by PT LUM, an APRIL supplier, following natural forest clearance in Pulau Tebing Tinggi. Photo by: Eyes on the Forest. Indonesian pulp and paper giant Asia Pacific…
Chile is probably best known for its volcanoes, earthquakes and the formidable peaks of the Andes, but as a country that spans 4,300 km (2,670 miles) from top to bottom,…
Protest staged by Walhi Jambi. Sinar Mas Group allegedly defrauded the Indonesian government of $15 million by avoiding reforestation taxes on 2,000 hectares in Jambi province. The land is reportedly…
