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APP has a zero tolerance approach to illegal timber. We adhere to strict, independently audited protocols to ensure that illegal timber is kept out of our supply chains.
The vast majority of APP’s fiber supply comes from sustainable plantation operated by its exclusive suppliers – these are trees expressly planted on legally appointed area according to a national spatial plan for the purposes of harvesting pulpwood.
The remainder comes from mixed wood residues from legal plantation development activities. These plantation developments are carefully reviewed as stipulated by the Government of Indonesia in its strategy to ensure high conservation values and environmental protection and support the country’s sustainable economic development.
APP’s major mills have achieved Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes (PEFC) Chain-of-Custody Certification in line with other major pulp and paper manufacturers.
APP is focused on sustainable plantation forestry - trees planted expressly for the purpose of pulp production. Every year APP’s fibre suppliers plant more than 350 million trees; fast growing acacia and eucalyptus varieties which grow to maturity and are harvested in six years which are important sequesters of carbon.
APP’s fibre suppliers have set aside around 40% of their concession areas, for forest & indigenous-species conservation and local community use. This equates to an area the size of Yellowstone National Park, in the United States`Incorporate in these set-asides, APP and its fibre suppliers have implemented several Conservation Flagship Programs to protect and manage areas of significant and representative biological diversity and/or cultural significance for the benefit of the people of Indonesia.
APP supports the communities within which we operate by building and improving infrastructures, providing medical centers, mobile clinics and doctors, schools and teachers, scholarship programs, clean water delivery systems, fire stations and trucks, as well as community economic development programs.
During 2007, APP, its fibre suppliers and other concerned stakeholders including NGOs collaborated on four major large-landscape forest protection programs: the 172,000 hectares Giam Siak Kecil Biosphere Reserve; the 10,000 hectares Taman Raja Nature Preserve; the 106,000 hectares Senepis Sumatran Tiger Sanctuary; and the Kutai Orangutan Program. No other players in the pulp & paper industry worldwide have ever implemented initiatives similar to these on such scale.
APP has recently conducted the pulp & paper industry’s first-ever integrated Carbon-Socio Footprint Assessment with Environmental Resources Management (ERM), the world’s leading environmental consultancy. This is part of our longer-term objective of producing carbon neutral paper.
APP and its related operations directly and indirectly support hundreds of thousands of Indonesian workers and their families, mostly in poor rural areas. APP is actively implementing the Poverty Reduction Strategy outlined by the Government of Indonesia to achieve the Millennium Development Goals set for the country.
APP and its fibre suppliers invested more than US$40 million in environmental, social empowerment and support programs within Indonesia during 2007. This funding is targeted on those programs that will protect biodiversity, improve standards of living and help alleviate poverty over the long-term.
To date APP has successfully afforested over 1.1 million hectares of degraded land and wasteland worldwide, primarily in Indonesia and China.