diff --git a/man/apport-bug.1 b/man/apport-bug.1
index 8905d49d1..d6df64e44 100644
--- a/man/apport-bug.1
+++ b/man/apport-bug.1
@@ -111,6 +111,14 @@ in their
 or temporarily on the command line when calling
 .B apport\-bug\fR.
 
+.TP
+.B APPORT_LAUNCHPAD_INSTANCE
+Use the given Launchpad instance instead of \fIproduction\fR.
+The supported instances are defined by python-launchpadlib.
+For example: \fIproduction\fR (for https://launchpad.net/),
+\fIqastaging\fR (for https://qastaging.launchpad.net/), or
+\fIstaging\fR (for https://staging.launchpad.net/).
+
 .SH FILES
 apport crash files are written in to 
 .B /var/crash
diff --git a/man/apport-cli.1 b/man/apport-cli.1
index 575a9b095..e6a6dd77a 100644
--- a/man/apport-cli.1
+++ b/man/apport-cli.1
@@ -141,6 +141,14 @@ in their
 .B ~/.bashrc
 or temporarily when calling the apport frontend (\-cli, \-gtk, or \-kde).
 
+.TP
+.B APPORT_LAUNCHPAD_INSTANCE
+Use the given Launchpad instance instead of \fIproduction\fR.
+The supported instances are defined by python-launchpadlib.
+For example: \fIproduction\fR (for https://launchpad.net/),
+\fIqastaging\fR (for https://qastaging.launchpad.net/), or
+\fIstaging\fR (for https://staging.launchpad.net/).
+
 .SH FILES
 .TP
 .B /usr/share/apport/symptoms/*.py
diff --git a/man/apport-retrace.1 b/man/apport-retrace.1
index 4ead2bc8c..5dd21b211 100644
--- a/man/apport-retrace.1
+++ b/man/apport-retrace.1
@@ -161,6 +161,16 @@ specified,
 .B apport\-retrace
 will not check for duplicates.
 
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+
+.TP
+.B APPORT_LAUNCHPAD_INSTANCE
+Use the given Launchpad instance instead of \fIproduction\fR.
+The supported instances are defined by python-launchpadlib.
+For example: \fIproduction\fR (for https://launchpad.net/),
+\fIqastaging\fR (for https://qastaging.launchpad.net/), or
+\fIstaging\fR (for https://staging.launchpad.net/).
+
 .SH EXAMPLES
 
 Reprocess recent local gedit crash report after the debug symbol packages have