The statement reads as follows:
APP released its Sustainability Roadmap Vision 2020 in Jakarta on June 5th 2012 and the first Roadmap update was released on September 5th 2012.
The key policy under our Sustainability Roadmap is the commitment to the identification, protection and the management of High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF), or forest crucial for the conservation of endangered species and its habitat. We also announced our commitment to support the end of deforestation by 2015.
Following the moratorium of APP’s owned pulpwood concessions on natural forest and peatland conversion on June 1st 2012, we have identified independent suppliers who supply our mills with Mixed Tropical Hardwood (MTH) fibre from legal natural forest clearance operations. It is important to note that these operations are conducted on logged-over production forest, not pristine or virgin forests.
APP is listening to Greenpeace’s concerns regarding the use of natural forest fiber in paper production. It is our intention to accelerate the implementation of natural forest clearance moratoria and HCVF commitments in the remaining suppliers engaged in legal natural forest clearance operations.
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