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Fires, smoke and haze - new in EoF’s online database

Sumatra, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, Palm oil, APP, Asia Pulp & Paper, bukit tiga puluh, carbon, corporate, deforestation, Diamond Raya Timber, EoF, Eyes on the Forest, fires, forest fires, haze, hotspot, Hutani Sola Lestari, NASA, palm oil companies, palm oil plantations, peat fire, peatlands, pulp & paper, pulp and paper industry, pulpwood, RAPP, RGE Group, Riau, Siak Raya, sinar mas group, smoke, tesso nilo, wood supply

Sumatra’s Riau province is suffering Indonesia’s worst fire season in recent years with serious smoke choking the region and neighboring Singapore and southern Malaysia. Eyes on the Forest has been tracking forest and land cover change and those who drive it in Riau since the early 1990s.

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APRIL’s deforestation continues as its restoration program launched

Sumatra, Lack of governance, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, Agam Sempurna, APRIL, company, corporate crimes, deforestation, EoF, Eyes on the Forest, Gemilang Cipta Nusantara, IUPHHK, Jikalahari, Kampar Peninsula, Ministry of Forestry, Muhammad Harris, padang island, peatlands, pulp and paper industry, RAPP, restoration, Riau

Despite a restoration program organized by a company affiliated to pulp giant in Kampar Peninsula, Riau province, launched and endorsed by the Ministry of Forestry, environmentalists criticized it as a manuoevre by wo-faced company which merely seek benefit from credit carbon scheme.

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APP suppliers in W Kalimantan clear forest, drain peatlands

Kalimantan, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, APP, Asia Pulp & Paper, Asia Tani Persada, commitment, Daya Tani Kalbar, FCP, land clearing, peat canal, peatlands, RPHK, timber supplier

A consortium of West Kalimantan civil society organizations accused Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) of breaching its own Forest Conservation Policy (FCP) announced last month where suspension on natural forest and peatland clearance started since 1 February 2013.

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