Every evening at dusk, at the Great Cave of Niah in Borneo, up to half a million bats fly out of the cave to feed in the surrounding forest and the same number of swiftlets return to roost. This diurnal mass exchange has taken place for at least 50,000 years....
One hundred and fifty indigenous representatives who are affected by the current and planned mega dams in Sarawak joined with other local organizations to protest the construction of mega dams in Sarawak. The conference was organized by SAVE Rivers and the participants of the conference strongly condemned the Sarawak State...
The Malaysian government plans to construct the 1000 MW Baram Dam which will displace at least 26 indigenous villages with a population of 20,000 Borneo natives and flood up to 412 square kilometers of rainforest. The Bruno Manser Fund has disclosed a map showing the extent of the project that...
A group of 22 dissatisfied village chiefs from the Ensebang/Melikin area in Balai Ringin lodged a police report to stop six logging, plantation and sand extraction companies from encroaching on their land. The identified affected area includes 7,300 hectares between Sg Kerangan and Sg Ensebang Baru and another 1,250 hectares...
