Paper firm says to stop cutting Indonesia's natural forests
Paper firm says to stop cutting Indonesia's natural forests
Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:00 GMT
Source: reuters // Reuters
By Michael Taylor
JAKARTA, Feb 5 (Reuters) - One of the world's biggest pulp and paper companies said it would stop using timber from Indonesia's natural forests and only use trees from plantations in a drive that an environmental group said may be a milestone if the company keeps its promise.
Tropical Indonesia is seen as an important country in the fight against climate change and is under international pressure to stop rampant deforestation and destruction of carbon-rich peatlands.
Jakarta-based Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP), long accused by environmental groups of plundering Indonesia's rain forests, said it would not use any timber from suppliers that has been cut in natural forest concessions, nor would it cut timber from its own such concessions, under measures it adopted on Feb. 1.
"Only plantation forest," Aida Greenbury, managing director of sustainability at APP, told Reuters on Tuesday.
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