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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

WWF: Tiger Habitat Urgently Threatened



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World Wildlife Fund
Release date: February 8, 2012


Tiger surrounded by toilet tissue
The toilet paper on your grocery store shelves may have a direct impact on the 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild. Not all tissue and paper towels are made from responsible sources.
Tiger Habitat Urgently Threatened

Sumatra's rain forests--and the tigers that live in them--are in danger. One threat? Toilet paper bound for U.S. stores.

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) is pulping rain forests and replacing them with pulp plantations to provide paper fiber for products like the fastest-growing brand of toilet paper in the United States today, Paseo. Since 1984, APP's forestry practices have cleared 5 million acres of Sumatra's forests--an area the size of Massachusetts. With only about 400 Sumatran tigers and fewer than 2,800 Sumatran elephants left in the wild, the remaining habitat is critical to these species' survival.


Learn what you can do to help ensure a future for Sumatra's forests, and the tigers, elephants and local communities they support.


Read the full story


More information:
What to look for when buying toilet paper, paper towels
and other tissue products

See if your grocer stopped carrying Paseo... or did nothing
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