Dangerous protest. It takes guts to chain yourself to a saw mill conveyor belt! The Taib family’s Australian company, Ta Ann Tasmania, is fuming because protestors held up their saw mills for some hours on Monday, by chaining themselves to the conveyor belts. Ta Ann’s spokesperson claimed that the world should be...
LONG LAMA, BARAM – About 450 villagers made up of different ethnic groups from all over Baram gathered at the normally sleepy town of Long Lama on 29 October 2012 to demonstrate peacefully and show their displeasure towards some of their community leaders for supporting the proposed Baram Hydro Electric...
Sarawakians fighting against the 12 proposed mega-dams in the state will be joining environment activist, Wong Tack on a 14- day march from Kuantan to the parliament starting on November 13th. Philip Jau, chairperson of the Baram Protection Action Committee, is leading a 12 members team, including three women, from...
MIRI, SARAWAK/MALAYSIA Swiss NGO, the Bruno Manser Fund, has released one of Sarawak’s best-guarded secrets, a map of all the timber and plantation concessions in the northern part of Sarawak, a state on the island of Borneo that accounts for 25% of the world’s exports of tropical logs. The map...
The Penans have been blockading against the construction of the 944MW Murum Dam since Sept 26, 2012. More than 1,600 Penans from eight Penan villages (including one Kenyah Badeng longhouse) are affected by the construction of the dam which is now about 70% completed. The Penan communities affected by the...
We’re excited to announce that The Borneo Project, along with the Global Greengrants Fund, is providing SAVE-Rivers Sarawak with a grant of US $5,000 to support SAVE-River’s critical on-the-ground work in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. The Borneo Project has been collaborating with SAVE-Rivers since they formed in late 2011, and has been working...
KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia: Over 120 participants representing 11 nations at the recently concluded Southeast Asia Renewable Energy People’s Assembly (SEAREPA) have unanimously decided to reject the development of 12 planned mega-dams in Sarawak. In their declaration, participants stressed that they had discussed renewable energy concerns across the region and were deeply concerned...
One hundred and fifty indigenous representatives who are affected by the current and planned mega dams in Sarawak joined with other local organizations to protest the construction of mega dams in Sarawak. The conference was organized by SAVE Rivers and the participants of the conference strongly condemned the Sarawak State...
