Joe Lamb, founder of The Borneo Project, and director Jettie Word will be presenting at the School of Geography at Oxford University on January 12, 2015. The presentation will be held at 4pm in the Beckit room, and will be followed by drinks and light refreshments. Title: Twenty Four Years...
The Chinese dam-building company Sinohydro, which is responsible for the construction of three hydroelectric dams in Malaysia, is failing to implement its own sustainable development policy framework. In this article International Rivers Policy Director Peter Bosshard examines Sinohydro’s continued evasion of its sustainability commitments, including its recent decision to consider building several...
Join the Borneo Project on Sunday December 14th at Mississippi Pizza in Portland, Oregon for a special film screening and holiday crafts sale! We will have original hand-made crafts from Borneo for sale and you’ll also have a chance to see our new 10-minute documentary, Damming Our Future, which sheds light...
BRUNO MANSER FONDS, BASEL / SWITZERLAND 2 December 2014 – for immediate release Amazon withholds book on Sarawak governor Taib Mahmud “Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia” by Lukas Straumann not delivered to customers – American online retailer accused of bowing to Malaysian ruler’s legal threats...
MEDIA RELEASE BY THE BRUNO MANSER FUND 25 November 2014 – for immediate release Urgent action needed to save Sarawak’s last intact forests International body names Malaysian state “ground zero of deforestation“ (KUCHING, MALAYSIA) Last week, Adenan Satem, the new Chief Minister of the Malaysian state of Sarawak in...
Date: Sunday, November 16, 2014 Join us on November 16 as author Lukas Straumann discusses his book, Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia, and outlines the massive destruction of the Bornean rainforest by Malaysian loggers. Money Logging is a story of a people who have lost their...
BLOCKADE AGAINST THE BARAM DAM REINSTATED Long Kesseh Baram: The tussle between the villagers opposing the Baram dam and the illegal loggers who are supported by the Sarawak Forestry Corporation is heating up. Under the watchful eyes of the police from the General Operation Forces (GOF) and officers from the...
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...
4 Nov. 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: Peter Kallang, Chair, SAVE Rivers | Tel: +60-13-833-1104| Email: peterkallang@yahoo.com Sze Ning, Jaringan Orang Asal SeMalaysia | Tel: +60-12-606-1592 | Email: szening@gmail.com Serene Lim, SUARAM | Tel: +60-12-547-7989 | Email: monitoring@suaram.net Tanya Lee, International Rivers| Tel: +60-19-438-0539 |E-mail: tlee@internationalrivers.org Human Rights Groups...
Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has promised RM27 billion to begin construction on a 1,663km highway across Borneo, although a similar highway was completed in 2008. Journalist Joe Leong posits that rather than using tax payers’ money to built a new road, what is needed is the repair and proper...
