A new study suggests that increased access to high quality healthcare may reduce chronic logging in Indonesian Borneo. Read more below. Providing high quality healthcare to communities around a rainforest park in Indonesian Borneo may be helping reduce chronic illegal logging, suggests a new assessment published by a conservation group. The five-year...
Sarawak’s Deputy Chief Minister, Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Alfred Jabu is again misleading the people. Recently quoted in the Borneo Post, he stated “Aye for proposed Baram HEP – Jabu”, saying that “community leaders and representatives in Baram are all for the proposed Baram Hydroelectric Dam Project.” Read more below...
The World Wildlife Federation (WWF) released analysis of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) showing only a handful of member producers are making adequate progress towards the goal of becoming 100 percent sustainable. Read more below. Read more from Sustainable Brands Read more about Borneo Forest and Climate Policy...
In an unusually bold statement catalyzed by the deaths of 14 rare elephants, six Malaysian NGOs recently called on the Sabah state government to pursue “a more conservation focused agenda” in managing the state’s forests. Read more below. Read more from Mongabay Read more about Borneo Forest and Climate Policy...
Poaching and deforestation in protected and restricted areas remains a significant concern and challenge across the globe. Read more below on the theory that scientist and researcher presence could help deter this behavior, or not, as well as the fact that some of the best protected forests in the Amazon basin...
Our Communications and Development intern, Allison Hanes, recently interviewed our founder Joe Lamb in preparation for the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival (WCFF) in this exclusive interview posted by Mongabay. Read more below to learn about the Borneo Project’s history, mission and vision for rainforest conservation and indigenous rights. The...
Sarawak Report has received an explosive dossier from sources close to Taib, detailing a powerful conspiracy to depose the Chief Minister at the next PBB Party Convention, due in May. The high-level defectors will maintain a pretence of unity during the coming federal election, expected in March, but have collected...
The International Hydropower Association (IHA), an industry group that claims to advocate the sustainable use of hydropower, has been urged to cancel its annual conference planned to be held in Kuching, Malaysia, in May 2013. The conference is hosted by Sarawak Energy, a public company controlled by Abdul Taib Mahmud,...
(GENEVA/ BERN, SWITZERLAND) Twenty MPs file motion to freeze Malaysian potentate’s assets held by Swiss banks; Attorney General urged to declare the family of Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud a criminal organization. Twenty Swiss MPs have filed a motion in parliament that calls for an immediate freeze of assets held by Swiss...
Eyes on the Forest (EoF) — an alliance that includes Friends of the Earth (Walhi) Riau, Jikalahari, and WWF-Indonesia — published SMG/APP deforestation and deadly human-tiger conflict as part of its ongoing campaign to highlight conversion of natural forests in Riau province for industrial timber plantations. The report looks specifically at five...
