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Fires in APP/Sinar Mas concessions add to region’s haze woes, threaten new UN biosphere reserve

Sumatra, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, APP, Asia Pulp & Paper, bukit tigapuluh, climate change, deforestation, drainage, Eyes on the Forest, fire hotspots, forest fires, GSK, haze, peatland, sinar mas group, Unesco, United Nation, WWF Indonesia

Satellite data for the first six months of 2009 show that Riau Province had the largest number of fire “hotspots” in Indonesia: 4,782. And nearly one-quarter of the Riau fires happened within concessions affiliated with Sinar Mas Group’s Asia Pulp & Paper company.

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