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APP and APRIL, which account for about 80 percent of Indonesia’s total pulp and paper production, said that they would 
be open for examination both by Disney and its international environmental organization partner, the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), to prove whet

Back in 2010, the activist group Rainforest Action Network sent a bunch of children's books to a lab for analysis.

The Rainforest Action Network, which had been critical of Disney Publishing’s paper policy in a report issued two years ago, praised the move as one that will help slow the deforestation of rainforests, particularly in Indonesia. “Disney’s commitment will reduce the demand for paper made at the expense of rainforests while creating incentives for improved forest management and green growth,” said Lafcadio Cortesi, the Asia director at RAN.

Environmentalists campaigning to prevent the wholesale destruction of the Indonesian rainforest scored a major victory on Wednesday after coaxing the Walt Disney company, one of the world's largest publishers of children's books, to revamp its paper purchasing policies.