Jakarta, 1 mar ( EFE).-the ecologist Association Greenpeace today accused the paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) of talar Ramin, a tropical white wood tree protected by Indonesian and international law and that it is part of the Habitat of animals in danger of extinction such as Sumatran tigers and orangutans.
Hikmat Suriatanwijaya, Indonesia Greenpeace spokesman, told Efe that there are “many evidence of these violations” from research which has carried out a group of experts of the environmental Association for a year at the factory of Indah Kiat-Perawang APP.
Suriatanwijaya pointed out that this analysis highlights that since the logging of this tropical tree was banned in 2001, more than 180,000 hectares of peat forests are uninhabited of trees in areas belonging to APP.
Also stated that analysis in the vicinity of the factory show the paper giant uses the Ramin for their products.
“Greenpeace has caught with their hands in the dough to Asia Pulp & Paper, this research shows that they are full of illegal Ramin in its paper mills,” reported in a press conference Bustar Maitar, forest campaign director Greenpeace Indonesia.
Maitar considered these data “ridiculing the claim of APP’s cry that have zero tolerance for illegal logging” and explained that Greenpeace has sent all these data the Indonesia Ministry of forests that it halt the activities of the trash.
APP, meanwhile responded to the environmental group, in a statement sent to Efe, that “thanks to Greenpeace the facilitation of this research” and said that the company will “examine allegations in a very precise way”.
“We take very seriously any evidence of violation of the regulations relating to the illegal logging of protected species and we have sent a team of specialists to the factory of Indah Kiat to determine whether claimed substances”, indicates the letter in the trash.
Greenpeace carried out an aggressive campaign against APP, which accused of illegal logging and of curtailing the Habitat of animals and in the past two years had been in contact with the main customers of the company to warn them of its activities.
Since then, multinationals such as Nestle, Unilever and Kimberly-Clark or Mattel have broken with the controversial company, which has meant considerable economic damage. EFE
