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A CRITICAL MOMENTTO PROTECT RAINFORESTS AND RIVERS

Industrial logging and plantation development in Borneo’s forests have polluted rivers, degraded fragile forest ecosystems and made it difficult for communities to find the forest products they need to survive.

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The Borneo Project responds to the needs of local partners, providing whatever support best suits programmatic and campaign needs.

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ELEVATING GRASSROOTS VOICESWATCH OUR FILM SERIES

The Borneo Project Film Team created a series of short documentary films about the 12 mega-dams slated for construction in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, in northern Borneo.

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HUMAN RIGHTSFOR FOREST PROTECTORS

Most of the indigenous communities of Borneo do not have legal rights to the land that they depend on for their lives and livelihoods.

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Will Malaysia become Southeast Asia’s clean energy leader?

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Sarawak can invest in or give away its future

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Forest protection is Malaysia’s climate ace card

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UN Report Says Indigenous Sovereignty Could Save the Planet

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How many dam bursts are too many?

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Latest News

12 Sep

Oil palm plantations are not ‘forests’

Wong Ee Lynn  |  Published: 29 Aug 2019 It was with bewilderment that I read the letter, “Europe should congratulate us for our oil palms” and my bewilderment…

06 Sep

We don’t want you to give a “dam”, Sabah indigenous activists tell Putrajaya

PUTRAJAYA, 5 September 2019: Representatives from 9 villages which will be affected by the construction of the Papar dam in Sabah, marched to Putrajaya…

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Latest News

12 Sep

Oil palm plantations are not ‘forests’

Wong Ee Lynn  |  Published: 29 Aug 2019 It was with bewilderment that I read the letter, “Europe should congratulate us for our oil palms” and my bewilderment…

06 Sep

We don’t want you to give a “dam”, Sabah indigenous activists tell Putrajaya

PUTRAJAYA, 5 September 2019: Representatives from 9 villages which will be affected by the construction of the Papar dam in Sabah, marched to Putrajaya…