Paper from Indonesian Rainforest
11/3/99
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Title: PAPER FROM INDONESIAN RAINFOREST PRODUCED BY APRIL
Source: Pacific Rim Forest and Trade List
Status: Copyright 1999, contact source for permission to reprint
Date: November 3, 1999
Singapore-based paper company APRIL has begun to market its paper,
produced by clearcutting rainforest, together with a Finland-based
UPM-Kymmene. Fine paper brand, known as PaperOne, is produced of
clearcut wood originating from rainforests in Indonesian province of
Riau, Sumatra, using management techniques that destroy habitats of
several endangered species.
Landuse of APRIL is also problematic from a social point of view as
it violates the rights of local communities to their culture and land
they have traditionally used. This has resulted in numerous land
disputes with the locals.
Undersigned organisations appeal to paper consumers in Europe that
they would avoid PaperOne products until APRIL changes its way of
operating as follows:
- clearcutting of natural forests will be stopped - local
communities, also hunters and gatherers that may be hard to reach,
give their permission to planting of open areas or already destroyed
areas
- losses originating from previous loggings and construction of
infrastructure will be fully compensated to local communities
Signed by:
ARA, Wolfgang Kuhlmann, Germany
Action SEED Europe, Karen Grant
BothENDS, Christa Nooy, Marie-Jose Vervest, the Netherlands Bruno-
Manser-Fonds, John Knzli, Switzerland Caledonia Reborn/Reforest
Scotland, David Whyte, United Kindom EarthLink e. V.- The People &
Nature Network, Bernhard Henselmann, Germany FERN/FME, Saskia Ozinga,
UK
Finnish Asiatic Society, Tove Selin, Finland Finnish Nature League,
Olli Turunen, Finland Forest Monitor, James Hewitt, United Kingdom
Friends of the Earth, Sarah Tyack, United Kingdom Friends of the
Earth Finland, Jan Kunnas, Finland Friends of the Earth Japan, Randy
Helten, Japan Friends of the Earth, Arjan Alkema, the Netherlands
Forest Peoples Programme, Mauricio Farhan Ferrari, UK Global Witness,
Patrick Alley, United Kingdom Institut Dayakologi, Pontianak,
Stepanus Djuweng, Indonesia Leavenworth Audubon Adopt-a-Forest, Pat
Rasmussen, USA Milieudefensie - Friends of the Earth, Arjan Alkema,
the Netherlands Norwatch/FIOH, Morton Roenning, Norway
Planet Survey, Didier Amougou, Kamerun
Pro REGENWALD, L szl Mar z, Germany
Rainforest Action Network, Erick Brownstein, USA Rettet den Regenwald
e. V., Reinhard Behrend, Germany Robin Wood e. V., Christoph Meyer,
Germany Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, John Niss, Sweden
Trees, Simon Waters, UK
Urgewald, Agnes Dieckmann, Germany
WALHI - Friends of the Earth, Longgena Ginting, Indonesia
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