Penan challenge logging giant Samling with video message from the ground
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Baram communities start signature campaign against logging
Community signature campaign condemns selective consultations and requests a stop work order for timber giant Samling in Sarawak’s interior (BARAM / SARAWAK / MALAYSIA) Indigenous communities of the Baram River Basin have launched a signature campaign against the misleading sustainability certification of logging activities on their ancestral land. Last week...
Baram Communities Lodge Complaint about MTCC Failures with International Certification Body PEFC
Civil society organisations argue MTCC dispute resolution process is faulty, standards not met for Gerenai Forest Management Unit under timber giant Samling(MIRI / SARAWAK / MALAYSIA) A group of organisations lodged an official complaint with the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), the international body based in Switzerland...
Samling denies stand-off with Penan villagers, says 56 chiefs consent to logging
Originally published in Malaysiakini Logging company Samling Group denied it is in a standoff with several Penan communities in the Sarawak Middle Baram region who erected blockades protesting alleged encroachment into their native customary rights (NCR) land. Contrary to media reports quoting NGO Bruno Manser Fonds (BMF), Samling said it...
300 Long Moh villagers demand justice after unpermitted logging on their land
Last month, the community of Long Moh submitted a letter to Samling demanding compensation for unpermitted logging on their land. Dated November 8th, the letter was signed by 300 community members and is the second plea made by the community to Samling, after an initial letter sent in September received...
Sarawak govt under pressure to stop oil palm project on native land
Willy Kajan (left) with Bruno Manser Fund (BMF) director Lukas Straumann (centre) and other Orang Asli leaders at a conference in Kuching today. Logging activities still going on despite instructions to cease operations, says an activist. Originally published in Free Malaysia Today by Larissa Lumandan KUCHING: An Orang Asli activist has...
Tokyo 2020 Olympics Scandal
Over 140,000 signatures delivered to Japanese Embassies around the world demanding no rainforest destruction or human rights abuses – Banner protests in Sarawak, Malaysia and at Tokyo’s new Olympic Stadium site (TOKYO / JAPAN & BERN / SWITZERLAND & BERLIN / GERMANY & MIRI / MALAYSIA) This week, activists from...
Penan request moratorium on logging to save last remaining islands of primary forest for Upper Baram Park
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press statement 4 May 2016 Penan request moratorium on logging to save last remaining islands of primary forest for Upper Baram Park We, the Penan, are a nomadic tribe living in the rainforest of Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. Our lives depend very...