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Recent news on Indonesian forest crimes, and related developments on NGO activities, company and government actions, changes to environmental rules, lawsuits and acquittals. Also features press releases and blog posts.
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Restorasi gambut tak menentu, peraturan baru menguntungkan siapa?

14 Oct 2015 / EoF News

These maps, tables show you why Sinar Mas/APP companies linked to forest fires, haze

Sumatra, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss,

EoF News (PEKANBARU)— Eyes on the Forest published NASA’s FIRMS MODIS fire hotspots data and satellite images on its interactive map to allow easy monitoring of...

07 Oct 2015 / EoF Press Release

EoF: Sinar Mas/APP’s denial misleading, they source of haze since ten years ago

Sumatra, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss,

Sinar Mas Group (SMG) and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) last week denied publicly that their companies are involved in ongoing forest and land fires. Eyes on the Forest...

18 Sep 2015 / EoF News

See animation of MODIS: how smoke from APP’s supplier blankets Sumatra since August 17

Sumatra, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss,

Eyes on the Forest today published a new animation it produced using MODIS True Color Terra images since 17 August 2015. The animation shows smokes coming out of Asia...

17 Sep 2015 / EoF News

APP again blames others for fires, NGOs refute

Sumatra, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss,

Eyes on the Forest found two Landsat images showing fires in and around concessions of four Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) suppliers in peat areas in Jambi and South Sumatra...

16 Sep 2015 / EoF News

Ministry to take over concessions raged by fires, APP supplier named suspect

Sumatra, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss,

Indonesia Police Headquarters named PT BMH as a suspect of forest fires in South Sumatra and it is the second time the timber supplier of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP)...

08 Sep 2015 / EoF News

Again President calls on stern measure against companies burning forest

Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss,

President Joko Widodo called stern measures against companies involved in forest and land fires burning by rescinding their licenses, media report said today.

27 Aug 2015 / EoF News

NGOs question APRIL’s policy implementation as APRIL’s breach of deforestation moratorium proven

Kalimantan, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss,

APRIL published an audit report by its consultant Hatfield which confirmed an Eyes on the Forest report that APRIL’s wood supplier, PT. Adindo Hutani Lestari (AHL) in...

10 Jul 2015 / EoF News

NGOs unimpressed with published APRIL moratorium baseline

Kalimantan, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss,

Eyes on the Forest says APRIL unable to provide evidence that PT Adindo Hutani Lestari (AHL) in North Kalimantan, an APRIL timber supplier, did not clear natural forest...

10 Jul 2015 / EoF News

Fires hotspots mostly detected in palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan

Kalimantan, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss,

NGOs in West Kalimantan analyzed that 217 fires hotspots detected by NASA Firms Eosdis during 28 June – 6 July 2015. 124 out of 217 hotspots or 57 percent was found in...

03 Jul 2015 / EoF News

Fires hit Riau, total 426 hotspots in June

Sumatra, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss,

Riau province is raged by forest and land fires where EoF analyzed based on NASA Firms Eosdis Data that total 426 fires hostspots detected during June 2015.