Fighting Forest Fires in Sumatra

An excavator, normally used for forest clearance and peatland drainage, frames workers from PT. Raja Garuda Mas Sejati – a palm oil company belonging to the Asian Agri group, a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palmoil (RSPO) – as they try to extinguish a peatland fire within the company concession near Tanjung Muara Sako village, Langgam subdistrict in Pelalawan regency, Riau province, Indonesia.

Unique identifier: GP04NJV

Type: Image

Shoot date: 29/06/2013

Locations: Indonesia, Langgam, Pelalawan Regency, Riau, Southeast Asia, Sumatra

Credit line: © Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace

Latitude: 0°19'6"N

Longitude: 101°37'37"E

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Forest Fires in Sumatra

Thousands of peatland fires in Riau, Sumatra - the majority within pulp and palm oil concessions - have caused record-breaking air pollution in Singapore and Malaysia, with the haze extending as far as Thailand. Decades of forest destruction and drainage of peatland by the pulp and palm oil sector – including members of the Roundtable on Sustainable palm oil – have created the conditions for these fires. Greenpeace calls for the RSPO and all pulp and palm oil producers to implement a ban on deforestation and peatland development.

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