Originally published on Southeast Asia Globe by Fiona Kelliher A coalition in Sarawak is speaking out against a lawsuit criticised as part of a ‘chilling’ corporate litigation trend designed to stifle investigations and complaints Remnants from illegal logging line the ground of a forest in Borneo. Photo: Adek Berry/AFP Things...
Originally published on ICCA Consortium by Bruno Manser Fonds ICCA Consortium Member SAVE Rivers continues uphill struggle for accountability and Indigenous rights in Malaysian timber industry In June 2021, the timber company Samling Plywood filed a lawsuit against Malaysian NGO SAVE Rivers (ICCA Consortium Member) and its directors for publishing allegedly defamatory...
Originally published in The Edge Markets by Emir Zainul and Cheryl Poo KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 13): Sarawak logging company Samling Plywood Sdn Bhd has defended its RM5 million defamation lawsuit against SAVE Rivers, contending that the allegations made by the environmental group were baseless and defamatory. In a statement today,...
Originally published in The Edge Markets by Cheryl Poo UALA LUMPUR (Aug 9): Local and international groups have called on Sawarak logging company Samling Plywood Sdn Bhd to drop its RM5 million defamation lawsuit against environmental group SAVE Rivers. This was stated by the Swiss-based Bruno Manser Fund and The...
Originally published in Free Malaysia Today Sarawak civil society organisations say communities around the Baram and Limbang rivers have been campaigning for more transparency regarding logging concessions. PETALING JAYA: Civil society organisations in Sarawak have urged a logging company to drop its suit against an NGO for defamation. Samling Plywood is...
Originally published in Eco-Business Indigenous communities in Sarawak have been monitoring their forests for the past year, gathering data to counter a logging company’s assumptions about the value of their traditional lands. Last month, Indigenous Penan and Kenyah communities of the Baram and Limbang rivers lodged official complaints to the Malaysian...
Originally published in The Sarawak Report Samling is the mega-logging company that has received concessions to chop down over one million hectares of Sarawak’s once pristine and immensely valuable tropical rainforest over the past four decades, mainly thanks to the decision-making of the present Governor Abdul Taib Mahmud. Company officers...
Originally published in Mongabay by Danielle Keeton-Olsen A timber company operating in Malaysia’s Sarawak state has threatened to take legal action against Penan and Kenyah Indigenous communities that are campaigning against the company’s certified-sustainable production plantations. For more than a year, the Indigenous communities have been speaking out against Malaysian...
Originally published in Mongabay by John Cannon An intergovernmental organization representing countries that produce the bulk of the world’s timber has thrown its support behind a decade-long effort to protect the last remaining primary forest in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. In its November 2020 meeting, the International Tropical Timber...
Originally published in Sustainability Times by Daniel Cross Indigenous people on the island of Borneo are up in arms over continued deforestation, which has left their once lush environment a mere shadow of its former self. Intensive forest clearing has caused an ecological disaster in the Malaysian state of Sarawak...
