Primary forest in Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah. Image by John C. Cannon for Mongabay. This was the headline Sabah woke up to on the morning of November 10th. Before the Mongabay story broke, I heard from Australian friends and allies as early as July that something was afoot. Forests, carbon, climate...
Originally published in Malaysiakini EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was amended to reflect that there are a number of communities, not just Penan, involved in the campaign. Indigenous communities of the Baram River Basin in Sarawak have launched a signature campaign against what they claimed to be a misleading sustainability certification for...
Originally published in Malaysiakini by Andy Heong Editor’s note: The earlier story made reference to Samling Power as part of the Samling Group in Malaysia. This was an error and the reference has been removed. We apologise for the mistake. PANDORA PAPERS | Before the break of dawn, Lunai Pada was...
Originally published in Malaysiakini Logging company Samling Group denied it is in a standoff with several Penan communities in the Sarawak Middle Baram region who erected blockades protesting alleged encroachment into their native customary rights (NCR) land. Contrary to media reports quoting NGO Bruno Manser Fonds (BMF), Samling said it...
Originally published in Malaysiakini Several Penan communities in the Middle Baram area in Sarawak have set up a blockade to stop alleged encroachment of their native customary land (NCR land) by a logging company, according to an NGO. The group Bruno Manser Fonds (BMF) said yesterday that the community has...
The Penan, who have been fighting a losing battle to save their forest since the 1980s have confronted loggers in the Baram region Originally published in The Times by Richard Lloyd Parry Some of the world’s last nomads have mounted a blockade in the remote interior of Borneo to stop...
Originally published on ICCA Consortium We stand with over 100 organizations in condemning Samling’s bullying of Indigenous environmental and human rights defenders in Sarawak The ICCA Consortium has joined a hundred organizations signing a letter to ask Malaysian timber giant Samling to withdraw its defamation suit against our Member, SAVE Rivers,...
Originally published in The Edge Markets by Emir Zainul and Cheryl Poo KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 13): Sarawak logging company Samling Plywood Sdn Bhd has defended its RM5 million defamation lawsuit against SAVE Rivers, contending that the allegations made by the environmental group were baseless and defamatory. In a statement today,...
Originally published in The Edge Markets by Cheryl Poo UALA LUMPUR (Aug 9): Local and international groups have called on Sawarak logging company Samling Plywood Sdn Bhd to drop its RM5 million defamation lawsuit against environmental group SAVE Rivers. This was stated by the Swiss-based Bruno Manser Fund and The...
Originally published in Free Malaysia Today Sarawak civil society organisations say communities around the Baram and Limbang rivers have been campaigning for more transparency regarding logging concessions. PETALING JAYA: Civil society organisations in Sarawak have urged a logging company to drop its suit against an NGO for defamation. Samling Plywood is...
