However, its village head says they face many problems, including that of a timber firm eating into their land and having to walk 100km to a clinic or school. Originally published in Free Malaysia Today by Larissa Lumandan KUCHING: The Long Lawen community has no regrets about refusing to relocate to...
Willy Kajan (left) with Bruno Manser Fund (BMF) director Lukas Straumann (centre) and other Orang Asli leaders at a conference in Kuching today. Logging activities still going on despite instructions to cease operations, says an activist. Originally published in Free Malaysia Today by Larissa Lumandan KUCHING: An Orang Asli activist has...
A US State Department science envoy says it would be a tragedy if the renewable energy revolution arrives too late to save the world’s rivers and the communities that depend on them. – AFP pic, March 7, 2019. Originally published in The Malaysian Insight HYDROELECTRIC dams are not the answer...
Sarawak village rejects Baram dam proposal, begins installing renewable energy projects Originally published in Earth Island Journal by Jettie Word A day after this film was released, we learned that the Sarawak government revoked the gazette that extinguished Native Customary Rights in the Baram Dam construction zone and reservoir and...
Indigenous communities successfully prevent any progress on the dam for two years Originally published in Earth Island Journal by Jettie Word In October, Indigenous activists from around the world gathered on the banks of the Baram River in Sarawak to celebrate the second anniversary of the Baram Dam blockades. Indigenous...
KPFA radio station in Berkeley, California, has today produced a special 30-minute show on the new book “Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia” by Lukas Straumann. The show was broadcast in the San Francisco Bay Area, a region where the family of Sarawak governor Taib Mahmud...
Originally published in Counter Punch by Amanda Stephenson Sarawak, Malaysia, is located on the island of Borneo, the third largest island in the world. Sarawak is home to thousands of endemic species, forty indigenous groups, and one of the largest transboundary rainforests remaining in the world. The state is also suffering...
Massive dams in Sarawak, Malaysia, threaten to flood over 2,000 square kilometers of the world’s oldest rainforests, displace 10,000s of indigenous people, and aggravate climate change, writes Amanda Stephenson – all to generate electricity that no one wants. Originally published in The Ecologist by Amanda Stephenson Sarawak, Malaysia, is located...
Palm oil companies are destroying forests in Indonesia and Malaysia. Some communities are fighting back. Originally published in Earth Island Journal by David Gilbert Early one morning last April, after a long night of impassioned discussion, Jamaludin, a rice farmer from the Indonesian village of Semunying Jaya on the island...
Murum Dam Blockade Continues Amid Human Rights Abuses Originally published on Earth Island Journal by Tara Holmes A fight against a mega dam in the Malaysian district of Sarawak is intensifying as Malaysian police move to arrest more than 40 people who have taken part in a peaceful protest at...
