Lawyers are calling for the creation of a special court in order to hear the hundreds of backlogged native customary land rights cases that are currently flooding Malaysia’s court system. Read more to find out how these lawyers intend on seeing this proposal through. Read more on The Borneo Post....
Plans to build a controversial coal-fired plant in Sabah, Malaysia are being revisited two years after the proposal was defeated by a grassroots movement. The project is now expected to face regional and international opposition. Read more from Mongabay Read more about Climate Policy then join the conversation on Facebook...
The Borneo Elephant Sanctuary, Borneo’s first sanctuary for elephants, opened last week, and will rehabilitate elephants to be released back into the wild. Interestingly, the sanctuary was funded largely by the Malaysian Palm Oil Council, whom the Sabah Wildlife Department thanked publicly in a statement. Read more from the Borneo...
As the election for Malaysia’s Prime Minister nears, corruption allegations concerning Chief Ministers Musa and Taib in the two Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak may weaken incumbent PM Najib’s National Front stronghold on the island. Read more from Reuters Read more about Stopping Timber Corruption in Sarawak and Stopping Dam...
In an unusually bold statement catalyzed by the deaths of 14 rare elephants, six Malaysian NGOs recently called on the Sabah state government to pursue “a more conservation focused agenda” in managing the state’s forests. Read more below. Read more from Mongabay Read more about Borneo Forest and Climate Policy...
A spate of studies highlighted both how little we know about tropical rainforests and the threats to forest biodiversity. In May a report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) said that wildlife populations in the tropics have declined 61 percent over the past...
According to a study published last year in the journal Global Change Biology, Indonesia and Malaysia lost more than 11 million hectares (42,470 square miles) of forest between 2000 and 2010. Borneo was on the top of list, losing 12 percent of its 2000 cover. Lowland forests historically have been...
Over 90 million US dollars alleged to be kickbacks for the illegal logging of tropical hardwoods in the Malaysian state of Sabah in Borneo have been traced through UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank. The bank is facing serious money-laundering allegations following the disclosure of a series of documents linking Malaysian top...
