4/17/2015

Apple Bought 21.8 Acres Of US Forest

Apple and environmental groups Conservation Fund (The Conservation Fund) will collaborate to buy 36,000 acres of Maine and North Carolina (about 21.8 million acres) of forest land for renewable and sustainable access to take advantage of these woodlands paper and packaging desired material.

According to the Conservation Fund, said a press release issued on Thursday, the organization, and Apple has bought 32,400 acres of forest land in Maine River in Brunswick County, North Carolina, bought 3600 acres of pine forest and hardwood forest. Overall, the total area of ​​these lands is even larger than the total area of ​​some of San Francisco.


Apple said the company which will provide a stable and sustainable supply of timber for the production of paper and pulp. This piece of woodland will make Apple products more environmentally friendly packaging.

Apple's environmental affairs director Lisa Jackson (Lisa Jackson) and the Conservation Fund President and CEO Larry Selzer (Larry Selzer) in a joint article published in the media, explaining the intent behind the cooperation.

They wrote: "Apple believes the same paper and energy can become a renewable resource, so Apple eager to get all the necessary paper and packaging timber from sustainable managed forests or timber controlled at source."

Maine Forest Reed (Reed Forest), including wetlands, rivers and alpine woodland landscape, Atlantic salmon, vultures, northern goshawk, and Canada lynx habitat and other rare animals.

Reid forest project builds on a broader geographical basis, including the area of ​​more than 1 million acres of forest reserves and associated habitats, the whole region and across the border deep into New Brunswick, Canada. Reid forests will continue to be treated as a working forest, ensure continued production of logs and protect jobs.

As North Carolina's Brunswick forest, the land adjacent to 1700 acres of the Green Swamp Sanctuary. Here the growth of high quality pine and many rare plants and flowers, there has been a priority to protect the forest.

Apple intends to work through the Conservation Fund to protect the woodland forest fund. This program from the late 1990s, the purpose is to obtain and permanent protection of natural resources.

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