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"If one of the world's largest paper producers can identify a way to clean up the complex social and environmental issues that plague its supply chain, then others can do so too," said Scott Poynton, the organization's executive director. "This should mark the start of a global push to address the most destructive drivers of deforestation worldwide." More than three-quarters of Indonesia -- a vast archipelago of 240 million people
-- was covered in tropical rain forest a half-century ago, but half of those trees have since disappeared.
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