News (5)

/ EoF News

NGOs condemns APP/SMG for brutal murder by their security of a local farmer

Sumatra, Tenurial rights, Pulp & paper, APP, bukit tiga puluh, deforestasi, deforestation, EoF, illegal logging, Indra, jambi, Jikalahari, killing, Lubuk Mandarsah, palm oil, Pelani, petani tebo, serikat petani tebo, sinar mas, sinar mas brutal, sinarmas, Tebo, violence, WALHI Jambi, WALHI Riau, Wira Karya Sakti, WKS

Indra Pelani (23) of Lubuk Mandarsah was killed by security guards hired by APP’s sister company PT. Wirakarya Sakti (WKS) in Bukit Tigapuluh landscape, Jambi Province, Sumatra. The village has been in conflict with WKS for a long time over their land tenure for 3,000 ha.

/ EoF Press Release

More to conservation than APP's clearing halt

Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, What companies can do, anniversary, APP, bukit tiga puluh, commitment, deforestasi, deforestation, FCP, indonesia, pulp, pulp & paper, pulp and paper industry, Rainforest Alliance, RIA, statement, WWF, WWF

Two years after Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) announced a new “forest conservation” policy, APP’s pledge to halt forest clearing has held, but its forests are still disappearing.

/ EoF News

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.

/ EoF News

Conversion in Bukit Tigapuluh causes elephants killed

Sumatra, Lack of governance, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, bukit tiga puluh, conservation, dead elephants, elephant habitat

Pekanbaru (EoF News)-- The government is urged to abide by regulations on its Sumatran elephant conservation agreement and protect the endangered species habitat from rampant conversion as human-elephant conflict escalates currently. Two elephants killed nearby Bukit Tigapuluh forest block early this month amid uncertainty of implementation on Ministry of Forestry Decree appointing Riau as Sumatran Elephant Conservation Centre.

/ EoF News

Riau Province : Rank No.1 in Illegal Timber Export

Sumatra, Lack of governance, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, bukit tiga puluh, illegal logging, national park, Rimbang Baling, tesso nilo, timber

Pekanbaru, KOMPAS-- Rampant illegal logging practices in Riau have placed the province on the top list of provinces in Indonesia with the highest rate of illegal timber export, beside Kalimantan and Papua. Every month about 126,000 cubic meters of illegal timber are exported to Malaysia from this province alone.

Reports (1)

/ EoF Investigative Report / WWF

Investigative Report: No one is safe (April 2016)

Sumatra, Carbon stock, Biodiversity loss, Palm oil, What companies can do, Apical, Bukit Betabuh, bukit tiga puluh, bukit tigapuluh, commitment, CPO, CPO mill, elephant, FFB, GAR, Musim Mas, orangutan, palm oil, RGE, sumatra, Sumatran tiger, sustainability, tesso nilo, traceablity, wilmar

Eyes on the Forest published today a report demonstrating how crude palm oil tainted by illegally grown palm fruit from government-protected areas in...