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STOP THE SWEDISH FOREST SCANDAL!


Essity, DS Smith, and Nestlé are major multinational companies that all buy products from the forest destroyer SCA. This makes them complicit in this forest giant’s well documented  destruction of Sweden’s last unprotected natural forests. They need to do everything in their power to Stop the Forest SCAndal.

Continuing to buy pulp and paper products from SCA despite knowing of their devastating impact on nature and indigenous communities is indefensible. We call on these powerful companies to immediately suspend their trade with SCA — or ensure that SCA ends its destruction of forests once and for all.

As an environmentally conscious person and consumer, you can make a difference. Sign the petition and help us pressure these companies to use their influence to stop the Forest SCAndal!

Act now to stop the forest scandal!

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Dear Essity and DS Smith,

As you are large buyers of SCA forest products, you are participating in the destruction of Sweden’s natural forests. Continuing to source pulp- and paper products from SCA, despite knowledge of their destructive forestry methods, is undefendable. We demand that you take action. As a customer, I do not want products made of or packaged in materials that come from, or risk coming from, destruction of natural forests in Sweden. You must stop sourcing forest products from SCA, and other companies that cut forests with conservation values in Sweden, until the demands are met:

1. Implement an immediate logging moratorium in all continuity forests and other forests with conservation values.

2. Forestry must respect indigenous rights and listen to the demands made by the Sámi reindeer husbandry. This includes adhering to the principles of Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC).

3. Immediately stop planting the non-native tree species lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) and begin the decommissioning of existing lodgepole pine plantations.

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The swiss-based multinational company Nestlé is the world’s largest food and beverage producer. Carrying around 2000 brands, the company produces more than 300 billion pieces of Nestlé packaging every year.

Nestlé claims to source paper and pulp only from sustainably managed forests. After Nestlé visited Sweden in september 2024 on the invitation from Protect the Forest, Greenpeace, Robin Wood and indigenous reindeer herders, the company made the following statement:

“We are taking actions, including exploring the decrease of our sourcing demand from the Swedish Northern Boreal region. […] We have identified this region as a biodiversity hotspot and is expected to benefit from higher conservation efforts and social/land rights considerations.”.

They have during 2025 updated the statement with the following change:
“…In that context we are taking actions, including decreasing our sourcing demand from the Swedish Northern Boreal region.”

Breaking news on Nestlé:

Protect the Forest and Greenpeace have for the past years informed Nestlé about the situation in Sweden and had a dialogue with them. We have been out in the forest with them and shared reports. Now, shortly after the launch of the Forest SCAndal campaign, Nestlé announced that they: “have decided to cease sourcing virgin fibre from the suppliers involved in the controversy in Northern Sweden”.

Although Nestlé does not name any specific forest company, the only supplier being discontinued according to their updated supply chain disclosure is SCA.

This is an important partial victory for the forest, climate, biodiversity Sámi culture and for this campaign, which shows the strength of your commitment!

Now we hope that DS Smith and Essity will also take their responsibility and drop SCA as well as other companies that cut down conservation value forests in Sweden.

The time for action is now!

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Essity was a part of SCA before the company split the two divisions in 2017, and has since retained close bonds to SCA. Essity is a global market leader in hygiene and soft tissue products, with well-known house-hold brands such as Zewa, Tena, Lotus, Tork, Libero and Libresse.

60% of Essity’s turnover comes from the European market, where Germany, France and the UK are the largest consumer countries.

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In January 2025, the British packaging company DS Smith merged with International Paper, making it the global market leader for paper based packaging. Well known companies such as Amazon, L’oréal, Zalando and Unilever are among the countless companies that rely on DS Smith for their supply of packaging material. 

Of course, there is today no way of tracking any single product up the supply chain to know for sure that it is in fact sourced from SCA and Swedish continuity forests. But as long as the risk is there, even companies indirectly sourcing from SCA through DS Smith, must take action. The risk can only be eliminated by refusing any product originating from SCA’s industries, and by stopping the trade with companies that source from SCA

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