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,...
JOINT PRESS RELEASE Samling Group is suing civil society organisation SAVE Rivers and its directors in a SLAPP suit (MIRI / SARAWAK / MALAYSIA) Today over 100 organisations sent a letter to Malaysian timber giant Samling asking the timber giant to withdraw its legal suit against SAVE Rivers and its...
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...
Samling Group is suing local Sarawak civil society organisation and its directors in a SLAPP suit (MIRI / SARAWAK / MALAYSIA) Local Sarawak civil society organisation SAVE Rivers, as well as its directors, have been served with notice that Samling Plywood is filing suit against them for publishing allegedly defamatory...
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...
The Kenyah Jamok community of Long Tungan in Upper Baram say they have not been consulted on matters affecting their land rights [Courtesy of The Borneo Project] Originally published in Al Jazeera Indigenous peoples from the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo are hopeful their objections to...
Basel mayor Beat Jans announces a $200,000 contribution to the International Tropical Timber Organization’s (ITTO) Upper Baram Forest Management Area – 24 indigenous communities in Malaysian Borneo are to benefit from the conservation and sustainable development of their forest lands. (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) Today, the Swiss Canton of Basel-Stadt (City of...
Originally published in Eco-Business Indigenous communities in Sarawak have been monitoring their forests for the past year, gathering data to counter a logging company’s assumptions about the value of their traditional lands. Last month, Indigenous Penan and Kenyah communities of the Baram and Limbang rivers lodged official complaints to the Malaysian...
