WWF urges Indonesian pulp producer APRIL to immediately stop pulping tropical forests
JAKARTA – Tuesday’s announcement by Asia Pulp & Paper that it has stopped all clearance of Indonesian forests puts its competitor APRIL in a tight spot. “APRIL is now the single largest converter of natural forest among Indonesia’s pulp producers,” said Nazir Foead, Conservation Director of WWF-Indonesia. “We urge the company to immediately change their unsustainable business model and stop draining our peat soils and converting our forests”. The Sumatran NGO coalition Eyes on the Forest reported that APRIL has become the Province of Riau’s largest agent of deforestation, cutting at