Blogposts tagged 'Tigers'

APP pulps trees from its own tiger sanctuary. How dumb is that?

Posted by ianduff - 16 December 2011 at 4:04pm - 3 Comments

Forest and peatland clearance inside APP's Senepis tiger sanctuary

This was APP's Senepis Tiger Sanctuary, until one of APP's suppliers cut down the trees

Asia Pulp and Paper – the company doing so much to jeopardise the future of Indonesia's rainforests – has done some pretty stupid things in the past. But pulping the trees in its own tiger sanctuary is astonishingly dumb.

And yet that's exactly what APP has done.

Article tagged as: APP, asia pulp and paper, conservation, deforestation, eyes on the forest, tigers, WWF

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I'm the eye of the tiger

Posted by Rusmadya Maharuddin - 22 September 2011 at 5:45pm - 2 Comments

Greenpeace tiger activists encounter a truck carrying logs from a natural forest

Greenpeace tiger activists encounter a truck carrying logs on the first day of the "tiger tour" in Indonesia.

The Sumatran tiger is a graceful and prestigious animal. It’s the ‘King of the Jungle’, a symbol of the richness of the forest, and an inspiration in Indonesian culture. To survive in its forest home the tiger has to run fast and have sharp eyes. But now, the Sumatran tiger’s survival is threatened because that forest is being destroyed.

Article tagged as: deforestation, indonesia, logging, rainforest, tiger habitat, tiger tour, tigers

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'You are just scum': APP staff resort to personal insults about Greenpeace campaigners

Posted by jamie - 18 August 2011 at 12:48pm - 4 Comments

Advert placed by APP subsidiary Solaris in Australian newspapers (via Mumbrella)

One of Asia Pulp and Paper's Australian companies has been caught in an embarrassing PR incident, in which clumsy personal attacks on Greenpeace campaigners and others have been traced back to its staff.

Article tagged as: APP, australia, deforestation, IGA, indonesia, mumbrella, solaris, tigers

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Why is the world's largest forest certification scheme still standing by APP?

Posted by andy.t - 29 July 2011 at 3:29pm - 9 Comments

A dead Sumatran tiger, found trapped on an APP concession, is carried away by fo

The dead tiger, found trapped on an APP concession earlier this month, is carried away

Earlier this week, we released some sad, shocking footage showing the slow and gruesome death of a Sumatran tiger that became trapped within an Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) concession in Sumatra's Riau province. The video footage also revealed that in the same APP area, recent forest clearance had taken place in an area identified as tiger habitat.

Article tagged as: APP, certification schemes, deforestation, greenwash, indonesia, PEFC, Sumatran Tigers, tigers

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Endangered Sumatran tiger dies in trap on APP concession in Indonesia

Posted by Laura K - 25 July 2011 at 10:42am

400 endangered Sumatran Tigers remain in the wild and - now we know – even one less than that

Recently word came to our Greenpeace office in Indonesia that a Sumatran tiger was stuck in an animal trap on the border of an Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) concession. It was trapped for six days in total without food or water. After a week of suffering forest officers arrived to evacuate the tiger – but it was too late. The tiger died during the rescue attempt.

Warning: this blog contains images and video footage that may upset you.