The Borneo Project’s Jessica Merriman appeared on Consider This from Malaysian news outlet Astro Awani to discuss the Bruno Manser Fonds’ recent report, Plundering the Baram Peace Park. The report documents how the Upper Baram Forest Area (UBFA), a conservation project established to protect some of Sarawak’s last remaining primary rainforest, was terminated — and how logging has since expanded across the area under a timber concession.
As Jessica explains, “no amount of logging in native primary rainforest can possibly be considered sustainable.” The episode also features Dominic Langat of Long Siut and SAVE Rivers Managing Director Celine Lim, discussing what the loss of the conservation project means for forests and Indigenous communities in the Upper Baram.