By: Tony Wenas – Managing Director, APRIL Indonesia Operations Over the next two weeks, a global community of diverse stakeholders gathers in Paris for COP21, underpinned by a common intent – to make a lasting difference
Offering initial evidence that fire and haze prevention is possible, six villages that signed up to APRIL’s Fire Free Village Programme (FFVP) kept their communities fire free during what is considered to be the worst
As a plantation manager, fire is a key threat to our business. We do not burn because it makes no economic or environmental sense to do so. Our plantations are managed to maximize fibre and
Members of the Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) met for the fifth time in the second week of November 2015 to review APRIL’s Sustainable Forest Management Policy (SFMP) 2.0.
In his address to Sustainable Land Management Business Forum* in Ankara, Turkey on 21 October 2015, APRIL Group Chairman, Bey Soo Khiang, discussed how public-private sector partnership can help achieve land degradation neutrality as well
Wildfire and Mitigation Specialist from Australia, Robert Webb spent time with APRIL’s Kerinci Fire Fighting Team, the community at Desa (village) Sering, and non-governmental organization ( NGO ) to learn more about wildfire prevention and
