- November 12, 2009 UPM-Kymmene's decision to stop pulp purchases from APRIL welcome
> Press release by Friends of the Earth Finland and Greenpeace Nordic
> Background
- April
19, 2006: Sumatra´s peat swamp forest threatened with
collapse, must be protected
Environmental
organizations: Unique forest ecosystem in Riau province, Indonesia
must be protected of further damage by loggers and paper industry
> International press
release
> Fact sheet on Kampar peninsula
and paper industry
- January
27, 2006: Common Vision for Transforming the
European Paper Industry
"We,
the undersigned, want to see a future Europe that consumes dramatically
less paper than at present, with all that paper made by an industry
that is less reliant on virgin tree fibres, maximises use of recycled
materials, respects local people’s land rights, provides employment
and has social impacts that are beneficial, conflict-free and fair.
We want to see all of Europe’s paper being made from responsibly-
and sustainably-sourced fibres, using entirely renewable energy,
with water that is as clean after paper production as before, producing
zero waste and zero emissions..."
> International
press release [pdf]
> Common
Vision for Transforming the European Paper Industry [pdf]
>More data on Taiga
Rescue Network site
- 3
November 1999: Environmentalists
call for avoiding APRIL's paper
- 17
September 1999: Changes in the alliance, problems
remaining
- 5
May 1999: Land disputes created by UPM-Kymmene
and APRIL escalating in Riau
- 7
December 1997: A letter from 31 citizen's
organizations from around the world to UPM-Kymmene
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