Updates

This press statement was released on the 29th of August,  2011.  “Flood from the dam and the infrastructure associated with the construction will definitely bring irreparable damage to the whole environment. It will destroy a heritage for which all Malaysian or human race should respect and harness.” ******* NO DAM FOR BARAM  Besides the colossal…

It turns out that US government has long-known how corrupt Taib is, and still allows the FBI to support him through renting Taib-owned offices in Seattle. Check out the press release from our friends at the Bruno Manser Fund below, and sign out petition here: http://borneoproject.org/updates/take-action-now-tell-the-fbi-to-stop-supporting-taib.  *** Wikileaks: US government well-informed on Taib corruption, abuse of…

Help educate your friends and support the Borneo Project by showing “The Last Nomads” in your home.  In 2008, The Last Nomads won the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Film Festival. This film highlights the work of activist and anthropologist Ian MacKenzie, who has worked with the traditionally nomadic Penan for two decades. His search for the last nomadic Penan…

Sign now! http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-fbi-from-supporting-corruption-in-sarawak The chief minister of Sarawak, Abdul Taib Mahmud, has funneled Sarawak’s timber and resource wealth into his own pockets. He has invested it in luxury homes and buildings abroad leaving the people in Sarawak destitute and with their natural environment destroyed.  Please sign this petition today to tell the FBI office in Seattle…

The Borneo Project and the Bruno Manser Fund have been working together to pressure the FBI to stop supporting the ultra corrupt chief minister of Sarawak, Abdul Taib Mahmud, who has fulled Sarawak’s wealth into his own pockets and into luxury homes and properties around the world. One of these properties is the FBI building…

NPR just put out a great new piece about what is happening with the forests of Indonesian Borneo. The same problems are felt accross Borneo. Listen to the piece, and share it with friends! *** A Battle Is Under Way For The Forests Of Borneo by ANTHONY KUHN  LISTEN: [7 min 51 sec] Add to Playlist Download…

A statement was released today by the people who will be affected by the Murum Dam — one of 12 new mega dams planned for Sarawak. Communities are not being given the legal rights to their land, even as the government threatens to displace over a thousand people from the land they have used for…

The website sarawakreport.org has discovered that that Taib paid US $5 million dollars to attack the Sarawak Report, which publishes articles critical of the infamously corrupt long-term minister of Sarawak. Check it out! *** From: http://www.sarawakreport.org/2011/08/taib-paid-out-5-million-to-attack-sarawak-report-international-expose/ TAIB PAID OUT $5 MILLION TO ATTACK SARAWAK REPORT! – INTERNATIONAL EXPOSE MONDAY, AUGUST 1ST, 2011 GMT   This illegal video…

A few weeks ago, we posted a number of pieces about how DeforestACTION was not supporting the rights of communities in their project area. It turns out, they are not doing right by their orangutans either. Here is the story of what has been doing on with the orangutans at the Sintang Orangutan Center (where…

Borneo Project Director Brihannala Morgan recently published this piece in Inside Indonesia, a quarterly online magazine on the people, culture, economy and environment of Indonesia. Check it out here: http://www.insideindonesia.org/feature/community-engagement-18071463, or check it out below. *** Community engagement MONDAY, 25 JULY 2011 Village afforestation project, West Kalimantan Judith Mayer Consider it from the businessman’s perspective: It…