This October marks the sixth anniversary of the opening of Rainforest Action Network’s Japan office, spearheaded by our Tokyo-based, activist-ambassador Toyo Kawakami.
The pulp and paper industry, led by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) and APRIL, is perhaps the leading threat to the remaining large forests in Sumatra and some of Indonesia’s largest intact peatlands. Pulp from cleared rainforests is made into cheap copy paper, books, tissue and toilet paper and luxury shopping bags that are then sold to consumers in the United States, Europe and Asia.
RAN’s Rainforest-Free Paper Campaign is pushing corporations and the Indonesian government to declare a moratorium on converting forests and peatlands to paper plantations. Working with partners in the U.S., Indonesia and around the world, our campaign is creating the market leverage necessary to improve corporate practices and transform global supply chains.
RAN’s Rainforest-Free Paper Campaign is pushing corporations and the Indonesian government to declare a moratorium on converting forests and peatlands to paper plantations. Working with partners in the U.S., Indonesia and around the world, our campaign is creating the market leverage necessary to improve corporate practices and transform global supply chains.
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Indonesian communities and groups are taking action to stop rainforest destruction and reform the pulp and paper industry.
Recent Blog Posts
RAN Forest Campaigner Lafcadio Cortesi and I traveled to Sumatra, Indonesia last month to meet with and interview an extensive network of allies involved in the movement to resist the rampant deforestation and human rights abuses occurring there.
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Demand that APP and APRIL stop destroying Indonesia's rainforests, abusing forest peoples' rights and fueling climate change.
Publications
RAN’s Rainforest-Safe Kids’ Books buying guide ranks eleven of the nation’s largest children book publishers for their commitments to protect Indonesia's rainforests and the environment. Disney is ranked Avoid for failing to keep rainforest destruction out of its books.
New research contained in this document exposes Weyerhaeuser’s misleading marketing of “green" building products and homes, which in fact contain wood cut from endangered forests in traditional Native territory.
Asia Pulp & Paper’s Hidden Emissions:
Calculating the Real Carbon Footprint of APP’s Paper
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