Sarawakians fighting against the 12 proposed mega-dams in the state will be joining environment activist, Wong Tack on a 14- day march from Kuantan to the parliament starting on November 13th. Philip Jau, chairperson of the Baram Protection Action Committee, is leading a 12 members team, including three women, from...
SAVE Rivers is against the proposal made by the Tokuyama Ltd. to have a scheduled waste treatment facility in Sarawak. The public has been misled in the beginning about the plans of Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy or SCORE: the name itself is deceiving because the industries proposed for SCORE...
MIRI, SARAWAK/MALAYSIA Swiss NGO, the Bruno Manser Fund, has released one of Sarawak’s best-guarded secrets, a map of all the timber and plantation concessions in the northern part of Sarawak, a state on the island of Borneo that accounts for 25% of the world’s exports of tropical logs. The map...
LONDON: The credibility of the international Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has been called into question over its failure to act against a company bulldozing ancestral forests and perpetrating human rights abuses in Indonesia. First Resources Ltd has submitted documents to the RSPO falsely claiming that its subsidiary PT Borneo Surya...
The Penans have been blockading against the construction of the 944MW Murum Dam since Sept 26, 2012. More than 1,600 Penans from eight Penan villages (including one Kenyah Badeng longhouse) are affected by the construction of the dam which is now about 70% completed. The Penan communities affected by the...
We’re excited to announce that The Borneo Project, along with the Global Greengrants Fund, is providing SAVE-Rivers Sarawak with a grant of US $5,000 to support SAVE-River’s critical on-the-ground work in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. The Borneo Project has been collaborating with SAVE-Rivers since they formed in late 2011, and has been working...
KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia: Over 120 participants representing 11 nations at the recently concluded Southeast Asia Renewable Energy People’s Assembly (SEAREPA) have unanimously decided to reject the development of 12 planned mega-dams in Sarawak. In their declaration, participants stressed that they had discussed renewable energy concerns across the region and were deeply concerned...
A proposed industrial area extension in East Kalimantan, Indonesia will likely mean the end of a population of rehabilitated orangutans who reside there, according to the Indonesian environmental group Peduli Teluk Balikpapan. Orangutans, as with other native wildlife that lives in the region, have increasingly smaller and smaller patches of...
TAKE ACTION! Hydro Tasmania and Sarawak Energy are ignoring human rights by investing in the construction of 12 new dams in Sarawak with no indigenous community consultation or oversight. This is not acceptable. Click here to stand alongside The Borneo Project in support of indigenous people’s rights! Read our full...
Earlier this week, Indonesia’s House of Representatives moved to establish “North Kalimantan”, a new province in Indonesian Borneo, in addition to four new districts: Pangandaran in West Java, South Coast in Lampung (Sumatra), and South Manokwari and Arfak Mountains in West Papua (New Guinea). This political move is meant to...
