Please join Executive Director Jettie Word of The Borneo Project to hear about one of the world’s greatest under-told stories: the struggle to preserve the rainforests of Borneo. For 25 years The Borneo Project has worked directly with indigenous and frontline communities in Malaysian Borneo to promote indigenous childhood education,...
Malaysia may be pushing ahead with its plans for a devastating series of 12 dams in the rainforests of Borneo that will kill a billion trees, bring death to wildlife on a stupendous scale and evict tens of thousands of indigenous people and their communities, writes Jettie Word. Now a...
Sixteen years after the creation of the Sungai Asap dam resettlement, reporter Hanna Hindstrom interviewed a Penan woman living in this community. Layo revealed the ways in which her life drastically changed as she and her family were forced to move from their homes to make way for the Bakun dam. Read on to learn about how her...
