We are committed to responsible environmental stewardship by ensuring sound environmental management on our own plantations. We support the RSPO process and we are partnering with international NGOs, such as Fauna & Flora International and WWF, as well as with local communities to preserve biodiversity and protect populations and habitats of orangutans. 

Our company policy explicitly forbids our employees and contractors from engaging in any type of animal trading.

Protecting orangutans and their natural habitat

We have partnered with Fauna & Flora International to identify and conserve orangutan populations and their important natural habitat in West Kalimantan (the Indonesian area on the island of Borneo). Together we have identified nine areas of high conservation value forest (HCVF) totaling over 500,000 hectares and an estimated 4,475 orangutans.

Our partnership with Fauna & Flora International is supporting the development of an orangutan conservation plan. It is identifying forest areas that are critical habitat for orangutan and assessing any developments that may impact the current landscape and that may threaten orangutan populations. This is helping incorporate these assessments into future planning. Fauna & Flora International has facilitated a multi-stakeholder process to collaborate with other NGOs, the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry, local authorities and communities to develop management systems and to provide financial and technical support for key orangutan conservation sites in West Kalimantan.

We are working with Fauna & Flora International to protect high conservation value forest near our own palm plantations in West Kalimantan, to implement environmental management plans, as well as develop and share best practices. We are also helping smallholders understand and comply with the biodiversity elements of the RSPO Principles & Criteria to preserve high value forest and deep peat lands.

Supporting best practices on environmental sustainability

We have funded independent WWF research on degraded land use in place of existing forest areas for the development of future oil palm plantations. The research is helping develop a definition of degraded land, assessing the levels of investment required, and determining best practices for the development of these areas.