Only weeks after Sarawak Energy promoted the Murum Dam as its model for a new approach to “corporate, social and environmental responsibility,” workers who managed to escape reveal the use of slave labor on this project. Journalists also reveal the horrific practice of systematic rapes of Penan women taking place...
Models for predicting species extinction had previously looked at remaining land as a whole, not considering whether the remaining land was connected or not. Read more below about this new model, which takes forest fragmentation into consideration when predicting extinction rates, and find out why species are at higher risk...
By Kaleigh Rhoads, Borneo Project Communications Intern I have developed a reputation for myself among my family, friends, and co-workers, as a person obsessed with orangutans. As the self-appointed “Orangutan Girl” I am eager to take advantage of World Orangutan Day as an opportunity to discuss what orangutans are really...
Following plans to amend the Aboriginal People’s Act of 1954, Native Customary Land Rights have been a spotlight issue in Malaysia. Read more below about the United Nations promise to local native communities to engage the Malaysian government on issues relating to their rights. Read more on Free Malaysia Today...
Despite a growing population and export economy, the conversion of primary forests for industrial agriculture has slowed in Costa Rica. Read more below about Costa Rica’s ban on clearing of mature forests and how this has encouraged the development of non-forest land. Read more on Mongabay Read more about Forest...
Following the Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC) decision to cut ties with logging giant, APRIL and banning them from use of any FSC trademarks, WWF, Greenpeace, and the Rainforest Action Network are calling on other certification schemes to cut ties with this leading deforester. Read more about this call to action...
New research has found that even small climate changes are linked to increases in human conflict worldwide including personal violence and crime such as murder, inter-group violence and political instability, and institutional breakdowns. Read more below about this comprehensive study and what this will mean for a warming world. Read...
Angko and Bagong were stunned as they watched they graves of their relatives and eight generations of ancestors being bulldozed as the land was cleared for oil palm seedling planting. Read more below about how these native people are fighting back in court against these grave injustices. Read more on...
By Jettie Word, Borneo Project Director I am so lucky. I am lucky that my anthropologist mother brought me to Indonesian Borneo when I was nine years old. I am lucky that I got to live there while much of the forest was still intact and the rivers ran clean....
Illegal open burning is being blamed for the choking smog characteristic of Indonesia’s dry season but environmentalists allege that this illegal activity persists because officials are being bribed to ignore illegal forest fires. Read more below about these investigations and the warnings of the fires to come in 2014. ...
