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SHOP INTELLIGENTLY TO HELP SAVE BORNEO'S RAINFORESTS
A HISTORY OF THE PENAN STRUGGLE IN SARAWAK, MALAYSIA
A Berkeley Borneo Breakfast Brainstorm with Bill Bevis
Orangutans
Orang Metropolis Uncovered
Only 2,000 Orang-utans Left in Sarawak
Saving Orangutans Means Saving The Forests
Explorer's Notebook: Orangutans Headed Toward "Catastrophe"
Indonesian Trade Ban on Rainforest Wood Aids Orangutans
Sarawak
Part 2 - The Brooke Era
Part 1 - Early History
Part 3 - Ethnic and Biological Diversity
Part 4 - Logging
Part 5 - Blockades
Part 6 - Bakun Dam, Oil Palm Plantations
Part 7 - Bruno Manser, Land Rights
Borneo Wire Backissues
Fall 2007 Newsletter
Latest Newsletter: Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Spring 2007
Newsletter Spring 2007
Fall 2006
Borneo Newswire Fall 2006
Spring 2006
Latest Newsletter: Spring 2006
Summer 2005
Fall 2004
Summer 2003
An Inside Look Into Borneo's Realities
Gone Borneo!
Sarawak Activist Tours California
Maidu Experience Offers Hope, Warnings for Borneo Tribes
Borneo Micro-Hydro Program Builds on Success
Borneo News Flash
Where the Wild Things Are
Summer 2002
Unified Penan Speak Out
Microhydro System Powers Sarawak Village
Managing Their Own Future
The Troubled State of Kalimantan's Forest
Borneo News Flash
Where the Wild Things Are
Winter 2001
New Threats, Opportunities to Mapping Program
Malaysians Help Russians Prepare for Logging Onslaught
Borneo News Flash
Rainforest Cures in Danger
Where the Wild Things Are
Previous Issues (Since 1994)
New Directions for the Project
Borneo Forest Reserve for Trekkers and Hikers
Asian Forests Disappearing Faster and Faster
Malaysian Elections are Not Democratic
The Upcoming Sister-City Delegation Visit
1995: The Year in Review
A Berkeley Borneo Breakfast Brainstorm with Bill Bevis
Mapping Efforts Continue in Sarawak
Sister-City Update
Another Case of Police-bullying in Baram
Crafts
BEADED BAGS
HATS
BOOKS & MUSIC
RATTAN MATS
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News & Archives
Remote Sarawak school charts road to cyberfame: Brunei Times
No suspects in mysterious death of Malaysian tribesman who fought logging, police say: Int'l Herald Tribune
Penan children and gov't schools: Borneo Post article
'Stay out!' Angry Penan villagers tell loggers: Malaysiakini
Penan chief found dead, foul play suspected
Penan leader Kelesau reported missing
Penan survival in the news: AP and AFP
Excellent new report: "Land is Life: Land Rights and Oil Palm in Sarawak" by M. Colchester, W. A. Pang, W. M. Chuo, & T. Jalong
Indigenous Peoples Shut Out of Climate Talks, Plans
Malaysia & Indonesia among top ten worst countries for indigenous rights: Survival
Animals and Nature
Small, Isolated Elephants Follow Own Evolutionary Path
Billions At Stake In Palm Oil Battle Over Orang-Utans
Cultured 'Man of Forest' in Peril
Orang Metropolis Uncovered
Wildfires blamed for greenhouse gas rise
Only 2,000 Orang-utans Left in Sarawak
Minister Admits Jakarta Unable To Curb Forest Fires
Study Shows There May be Hope for Orang-Utans
Escalating Conflict at Tanjung Puting National Park
View Platform to be Built at Sg Sibuti Crocodile Habitat
Bakun Dam
Longhouse folks affected by Bakun project seek help
Malaysia's Bakun dam eyes $658mln pension fund loan
Malaysia Smelter Asia/Bakun: Dam Completion By 2007
Board: No big damage by Bakun project
Big Money: Power decisions
UPDATE - Malaysia's Syed Mokhtar to build Borneo dam
Sarawak TIDC to Monitor Removal of Bakun Timber
Work begins on controversial Bakun Dam Project
Survey shows effects of dam on Kayan
Aluminium Smelter to be Set Up
Blockades
Imminent Police Action Against Five New Penan Blockades-- ALERT
Penan Blockade Demolished: Samling bulldozing new logging road, destroying community's primary rainforests
Penan blockades protest logging in Sarawak, prevent road construction in primary forests
Update on Medihit and Pengaran Iman Blockades
Penan Blockades Update
Baram's Penan Community - Hungry, Poor And Sick
New 'White Rajah' Rumoured In Rainforest After Activist Disappears
More Penans Try To Stop Loggers
Suhakam To Launch Fact-Finding Mission To Upper Baram and Limbang
A New Wave of Penan Blockades
Bruno Manser
No Evidence to Show Swiss Environmentalist Dead: Police
Without a Trace
Penan defender Bruno Manser believed to be dead: friends, family
No Sign of Borneo Forest Crusader
Totem for Bruno Manser
In Remembrance of Bruno
Swiss Activist Missing in Borneo
Lost in the Borneo Jungle
Message by 17 Penan Leaders on Bruno Manser
SWISS ACTIVIST BRUNO MANSER MISSING IN BORNEO
Kalimantan/Indonesia
Importing Destruction: How U.S. imports of Indonesia’s tropical hardwoods are devastating indigenous communities and ancient forests. Report for RAN by Jessica Lawrence, Noriko Toyoda & Helvi Lystiani
Peaceful Sarawak Now Has a Security Threat
Minister Admits Jakarta Unable To Curb Forest Fires
Indonesia: Govt To Set Up Green Crimes Team
Thousands Meet in Indonesia to Prepare for "Earth Summit"
Indonesian President Calls for a Moratorium on Logging
Escalating Conflict at Tanjung Puting National Park
Indonesia Starts Construction on 98-Kilometre Forest Fence
El Nino To Return But Not As Strong As 1997 Version
Indonesia: More Local Power May Mean Fewer Trees
Land Rights/Human Rights
UN Adopts Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
High Court upholds Native Customary Rights in Sabah: precedent set for compensation for damages
Leading Sarawak land rights lawyer sued by Chief Minister for distributing leaflets
Rumah Nyawin victory: "We will not be evicted!"

Indigenous Victory Overturned: Court of Appeals invalidates part of Rumah Nor decision
Indigenous Land Claim Invalidated by Sarawak Court
Gathering on NCR land: Natives Pledge to Fight On
Slow court process gives native landowners the jitters
Lundu Dayaks, Backed by Suhakam, Fight for Their Land
Legal Battles
Malaysian Plantation Firm to Pay 1.1 Million Dollars over Indonesia Haze
Iban and Bidayuh Communities Suing Oil Palm Company for Encroachment of NCR
PNG Premier Condemns Logging Project, Court Hearing Today
Victory for Orang Asli in Land Rights Case
Upper Baram Penan Freed Without Charge
Ulu Niah Ordeal Not Over Yet
12-years jail for defending NCR lands
A Tribal Struggle to Preserve What's Left of a Borneo Forest
Sarawak court rejects bid to stop natives’ suit over land
Five to Answer Murder Charge while Six Acquitted in Ulu Niah Case
Logging
Credit Suisse asked to pay back profits of Samling listing
Community Stops Illegal Logging in Sabah
Greens lobby against Indonesian wood
Lumber and Paper Giants to Announce Ban of Indonesian Wood and Pulp
Environmental Investigators Expose Laundering of Illegal Indonesian Timber by Malaysia and Singapore
Government To Impose Ban On Imported Squared Logs From Indonesia
Sarawak TIDC to Monitor Removal of Bakun Timber
Malaysian tycoon arrested on illegal logging charges
Illegal Loggers Destroy Protected Forests
Indonesia Military to Fight Illegal Logging
Malaysian Politics/Culture
Malaysian tycoon arrested on illegal logging charges
Malaysia: Controversy Rages Over Website Raid
Malaysia: Raid Bad News for Free Media
First-time Illegal Immigrants May be Whipped
Media: Casualty in Malaysia's War on Terror?
Malaysia Expects Mild El Niño, Watches Haze
Haze to Stay Until Early 2003: Minister
Keeping Our Forests Alive for Our Use
Open Letter to the Malaysian and Sarawak State Governments
Check Large-scale Burning by Plantations, Says Activist
Oil Palm, Plantations, Biofuels
Big food companies accused of risking climate catastrophe
Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite: Guardian
KQED Radio's Pacific Time explores "Indigenous People in Borneo's Changing Landscape"
KQED Radio's Pacific Time examines "Deforestation in Indonesia", links to palm oil & biofuels
Palm oil: the biofuel of the future driving an ecological disaster now
The Price of Malaysia's Palm Oil Expansion
Mega hopes palm oil eases arms buying trip
Billions At Stake In Palm Oil Battle Over Orang-Utans
Palm Oil Debate Weighs Ice Cream and Elephants
Palm oil processing plant to be built in Bintulu
Penan
Penan leader's body to be exhumed
No suspects in mysterious death of Malaysian tribesman who fought logging, police say: Int'l Herald Tribune
Penan children and gov't schools: Borneo Post article
'Stay out!' Angry Penan villagers tell loggers: Malaysiakini
Penan chief found dead, foul play suspected
Penan leader Kelesau reported missing
Penan survival in the news: AP and AFP
Sarawak Penan Association: We Blockade to Stop Encroachments on Ancestral Lands
Last Stand in Sarawak: The Penan of Borneo are fighting a losing battle for the last of their ancestral forests.
Penan women establish gardens, plant trees to defend land claims
Sabah
Department: Loggers Found To Breach EIA Conditions
Uncertain Future for Malaysia's Indonesian Migrants
Another Problem Besets Sabah Timber Industry
No Timber Left In Sabah Forests
Timber Firms May Lose Contracts
Sabah to Review Unfavourable Timber Pacts with Private Sector
Malaysia: Sabah Beefing up Forest Department to Fight Corruption
Plan for Streamlined Land Law Covering All States
Former Sabah Chief Minister Loses Seat over 'Phantom Voters'
SEPA Urges Gov't Not to Entertain Proposal to Mine Sabah's "Lost World"
Sarawak
Probe Taib, Japanese NGOs urge PM
Tribes Effectively Barred from Making High-Tech Maps
Sarawak Chief Minister Implicated in Timber Scandal
Sarawak Forestry Corporation to be launched on June 9
Sarawak Rivers Lose Their Fish to Pollution
Bio-Tourism to Get Big Play in Sarawak
Peaceful Sarawak Now Has a Security Threat
Only 2,000 Orang-utans Left in Sarawak
Aluminium Smelter to be Set Up
Iban and Bidayuh Communities Suing Oil Palm Company for Encroachment of NCR
Technology/Biotechnology
Exploit Fully Borneo's Rich Natural Resources
Bidayuh First to Step Forward
Shift in Natural Forestry Resource Usage Seen
The Biotech Boom: Creating frankenforests
Bio-pirates stalk Borneo tribes' treasure trove
Bio-Pirates Raid Trees in the Swamps of Borneo
Satellite Technology for More Efficient Forest Management
Doubts Raised on Whether Anti-AIDS Drug From Sarawak Will Ever be Developed by Malaysia
Roger Harris: Tribal Tech Supporter
From the Jungle to the Clinic
The Borneo Project & Other Non-Profits
Village Mapping Program Threatened
The Dam the Dayaks Dread
Sarawak Activist Gets Back Passport After Nine Years
Map Helps Amazon Indians Claim Their Rain Forest
The Borneo Project Thinks Ahead
BORNEO NATIVE GROUP SCORES LAND CLAIM VICTORY
SAM to Expand Forest Rehabilitation Project to Northern Sarawak
Micro-Hydro System Powers Sarawak Village
Survivor: For Borneo's People, It's Not Just a TV Show
Tribes of Borneo Fight for Land
Timber Certification
Our Work
Dalam Bahasa Malaysia: Tentang filem "Rumah Nor: Suatu Ujian Hak Milik Bagi Malaysia"
Microhydro systems protect rainforests & rivers, strengthen community rights
Legal Aid Fund for 2008
Penan Community Schools need your support in 2008
Ibans of Sungai Bong win Wrongful Arrest Court Case!
Rumah Nyawin DEMOLISHED by Sarawak gov't-- Iban community devastated, seeks emergency assistance
Help Bario Asal build a microhydro system and protect rainforest!
Watch our new documentary online: Rumah Nor: A Land Rights Test for Malaysia
Sarawak activist jailed for reporting death threat; YOU can help him map and save community forests in 2007!
Penan women establish gardens, plant trees to defend land claims
Updates
Sarawak's Indigenous Peoples Land Rights Must Be Recognized: International Fact Finding Mission
Excellent new documentary film online: Penusah Tana: Penan land rights struggle. By H. Chiew & C. Too
Malaysian indigenous activists walk out in protest of timber trade consultation (FLEGT)
Circumstances surrounding late Long Kerong Headman’s death requires transparent Police probe: SUARAM
Social Impacts of Palm Oil Biodiesel on Communities in Malaysia: Thesis of Tahia Devisscher
Police exhume skeletal remains of Penan chief
Sabah's indigenous communities claim over 300,000ha of customary lands in historic new memo to government
Excellent new report and film: "Losing Ground: The human rights impacts of oil palm plantation expansion in Indonesia" & "Palmed Off"
Conservation agreements signed to protect local rainforest; microhydro turbine on its way to Bario, Kelabit highlands, Sarawak
Native Land Rights will be upheld in land alienation process: Sabah State Gov't

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