The Borneo Project works to bring stories about Borneo into the media to increase awareness about issues affecting the island, biodiversity, indigenous rights, and climate change.
If you are interested in covering topics related to Borneo, or are interested in learning about issues impacting the region, please contact our Communications and Media Manager Fiona McAlpine, at fiona@borneoproject.org
Press Releases & Media Briefings
- Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests seminar: “Twenty Four Years in The Borneo Project, Lessons in Becoming Allies” January, 2015
- Sierra Club Radio Interview, Producer: Orly Cotel
- “Borneo’s Indigenous Tribes Fight Plans for Dams”, Here & Now, NPR, October, 2013
- “Mega Dam Protests in Sarawak-Media Briefing Paper” May, 2013
- “As Impoundment Begins, 100 Indigenous Penan Blockade Destructive Dam in Borneo” September, 2013
- “Borneo Indigenous Communities Push Anti-Dam Blockades Ahead of UN Meeting” October, 2013
- “Over 25 International Organizations Voice Outcry Over Treatment of Penan Protestors” November, 2013
Mentioned Articles
- “River Relatives: Yurok, Southeast Asian Tribes Unite in Global Dam Opposition”, Times Standard News, November, 2015
- “‘Fight until they die’: Malaysia’s dam blockade finds international support”, Crikey, November, 2015
- “Yurok Youth River Activists Travel to Malaysian Borneo to Oppose Baram Dam Environmental Degradation and Displacement of Indigenous Cultures”, Intercontinental Cry, November, 2015
- “Dam Removal Activism: Solidarity”, The Triplicate, November, 2015
- “International Indigenous Anti-Dam Activists Join Two Year Anniversary Celebration of Blockades in Malaysia”, Intercontinental Cry”, October, 2015
- “Indigenous anti-dam activists converge in Sarawak, Malaysia”, Changing Times, October, 2015
- “A Shocking, Atrocious, And Little-Known Project Will Ruin The Lives Of Thousands If It Isn’t Stopped“, Upworthy, July, 2014
- “Anti-Sarawak Dam Rallies Held in Australia, Malaysia”, Asian Correspondent, September, 2013
- “Borneo Tribesmen Block Road as Controversial Rainforest Dam Impoundment Begins”, Mongabay, September, 2013
- “Petitions to Stop Sarawak Mega-Dams Fall on Deaf Ears”, Asian Correspondent, October, 2013
- “Borneo Indigenous Communities Push Anti-Dam Blockades Ahead of UN Meeting”, Truthout, October, 2013
- “Borneo Indigenous Blockade Mega Dam as Penan Struggle with Relocation”, Indian Country Today Media Network, November, 2013
- “US-Based Coalition Urges Najib to Protect Penans”, Free Malaysia Today, November, 2013
Borneo Project Staff & Board Articles & News Features
- “New Film Showcases Logical Alternatives to Destructive Mega Dams in Borneo“, Earth Island Journal, March, 2016
- “Anti-Dam Activists Gather in Sarawak State to Celebrate Second Anniversary of Baram Dam Blockades”, Earth Island Journal, November, 2015
- “US Radio Station Exposes Taib Assets Ahead of Money Logging North American Tour”, Bruno Manser Fonds / KPFA Radio, November, 2014
Borneo’s Killer Dams, Green Social Thought: A Magazine of Synthesis and Regeneration No. 66 Winter 2015, November, 2014
- “Sarawak Mega-dams, You Bet Your Life”, International Rivers, July, 2014
- “Borneo mega-dams threaten indigenous ‘ethnocide’”, Ecologist, June, 2014
- “Borneo Mega-Dams Threaten Indigenous “Ethnocide”, Cultural Survival Quarterly, July, 2014
- “Borneo’s Killer Dams”, CounterPunch, July, 2014
- “Rumble in the Jungle”, Earth Island Journal, Winter 2013
- “Indigenous Communities Take Charge with Dam Blockades in Borneo”, International Rivers, December, 2013
- “27 International NGOs Cite Urgent Human Rights Violations at Murum Dam”, Truthout, November, 2013
- “Activism & Deforestation”, Hot in Here Radio, November, 2013
- “How Development is Threatening Human Rights in Borneo”, October, 2013
- “Fight Against Malaysian Dam Heats Up”, Earth Island Journal, October, 2013
- Island Wire, “Penan Villagers Block Dam Site”, October, 2013
- “Indigenous Activists Escalate Campaigns Against Dams in Borneo”, SpeakOut, Truthout, June 17, 2013
- “Indigenous Activists Escalate Campaigns Against Dams in Borneo”, Earth Island Journal, May 30th, 2013
- “Meet the Rainforest-Dwelling Malaysian Farmers Fighting to Keep their Land above Water”, YES! Magazine, May 24th, 2013
- “Defending Rivers and the Communities that Rely on Them”, Earth Island Journal, Summer, 2012
- “Don’t Ignore REDD’s Impact on Communities”, Borneo Orangutan Survival Australia, Fall 2011
- “REDD and Community Engagement”, NO REDD, published by Carbon Trade Watch, 2010-2012
- “Is it Possible for Communities to Benefit from REDD?” Inside Indonesia (online), 2010
- “The Role of Government Support in the Evolution of Village-level Collective Action” CIFOR Publications, 2006
- “Strengthening Women’s Participation through Collective Action in Inclusive Decision-Making Processes” CGIAR/ CAPRi working Papers, 2005