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from the Jakarta Globe<\/strong><\/p>\n

The world’s third-largest paper producer Asia Pulp and Paper said on Tuesday it had stopped using logs from Indonesia’s natural forests, after fierce campaigning by green groups against the company.<\/p>\n

The firm has in recent years lost packaging contracts with big brands such as foodmaker Kraft and Barbie’s Mattel, after Greenpeace accused APP of clearing carbon-rich forest, home to endangered Sumatran tigers and orangutans.<\/p>\n

“APP has committed to stop logging in all natural forest,” APP sustainability head Aida Greenbury told AFP. “We will only expand operations on open land and scrubland.”<\/p>\n

In a statement the company said that from “February 1st, all of APP’s suppliers have suspended natural forest clearance,” and that it was conducting assessments to identify high-conservation-value forest for protection.<\/p>\n

The Indonesian firm has failed to carry out similar commitments before, including an agreement with environmental group WWF signed in 2003 to protect high-conservation-value forests over an initial 12-year period.<\/p>\n

WWF cancelled the agreement in 2004, saying the company had failed to make any progress on its commitment.<\/p>\n

The company has also been accused of greenwashing (making deceptive claims of green benefits) with environmental projects, including a Sumatran tiger sanctuary which was questioned by scientists and activists.<\/p>\n

Louis Verchot, a scientist with the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research, said APP had made claims of sustainable forestry several times but continued to destroy peat swamp forests which had dense carbon stocks.<\/p>\n

“If they’re making a commitment to no deforestation and they are paying attention to problems with their past reputation, then that’s a great step in the right direction,” he said.<\/p>\n

“But if it’s greenwash, then it would really be unfortunate to lead folks down that path again.”<\/p>\n

Deforestation accounts for 70 percent of carbon emissions in Indonesia, the world’s third-biggest emitter, according to UN data.<\/p>\n

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This article and photograph origninally appeared on and is courtesy of The Jakarta Globe<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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