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“Turning just one Sumatran province’s forests and peat swamps into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and rapidly driving the province’s elephants into extinction, a new study by WWF and partners has found.”

Unfortunately, the report doesn’t just document the emissions caused by clearing Riau’s forests and converting them to industrial tree plantations. Being WWF, they want to work with the industry to develop “solutions”. These include trading carbon from “avoided deforestation”, which could, according to WWF, “provide a good future for Indonesia’s forest industry, provided solid policies are issued to encourage the commercialization of environmental services, such as avoiding deforestation, water and soil protection and biodiversity conservation.”

Instead of being fined for destroying vast areas of forest and the livelihoods of Sumatra’s local communities, APP and APRIL the main culprits, stand to make a profit - by establishing monocultures of industrial tree plantations on what WWF calls “waste” land.

Full report available here.

WWF’s reports on APP here.