Forest pledges are a COP out

Indigenous reps at COP27 say we are “horrifyingly far from our goals” if what is happening on the ground continues to be ignored Last month, a coalition of NGOs submitted a complaint to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) against Malaysian timber giant Samling. The 40+ page report chronicles allegations from...

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Forest Stewardship Council FSC called on to drop Samling Group

Coalition submits complaint to FSC during General Assembly, calling on the body to withdraw Samling’s certificates (BALI, INDONESIA / MIRI, MALAYSIA) This week, a coalition of civil society organizations are calling on the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) to drop Sarawak timber giant Samling and withdraw its FSC Licence Agreement under...

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Sarawak’s Indigenous communities celebrate historic win

Sarawak’s indigenous communities celebrate historic win against palm oil development, thank Premier and warn against planned township threatening Sarawak’s only UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Gunung Mulu National Park (Mulu, Sarawak/Malaysia) In a recent letter to Sarawak Premier Abang Johari Openg, the Penan communities of the Mulu region welcome the...

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Indigenous communities complete Baram Heritage Survey and launch community atlases

Largest ever ecological and social survey of Baram reveals incredible abundance of species in Indigenous-managed forests (Miri/Sarawak/Malaysia) The Borneo Project, SAVE Rivers and Keruan Organisation are thrilled to launch the Baram Heritage Survey Atlases, the culmination of more than two years of work conducted by Penan and Kenyah communities in...

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Timber giant Samling enters forest earmarked for conservation, satellite images show

JOINT PRESS RELEASE by KERUAN, Bruno Manser Fund, The Borneo ProjectFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Logging company Samling extracts timber near culturally important site – Penan communities outraged (LONG AJENG / BARAM / SARAWAK) Logging company Samling is currently extracting timber from an area earmarked for community-led conservation and community development under...

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Taking on Big Timber  

In Malaysian Borneo, local communities are fighting to safeguard their land from logging in the face of corporate intimidation. Last December, timber giant Samling’s COO James Ho Yam Kuan wrote in an opinion piece in a popular Malaysian online news site that he was “scandalized” by accusations that the company...

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Indigenous delegation from Borneo expects Dutch government to suspend Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme

May 13, 2022 Indigenous delegates from Malaysia visit the Netherlands, top importer of MTCS certified timber, to raise concerns about the certification scheme(THE HAGUE / NETHERLANDS) An Indigenous delegation from Malaysia is currently in the Netherlands to speak to the Dutch government about suspending its endorsement of the Malaysian Timber...

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Experts at Anti-SLAPP Conference Identify Samling’s Lawsuit Against SAVE Rivers as SLAPP Suit

As companies increasingly rely on legal intimidation around the world, Samling is identified as one company in Malaysia allegedly using legal action to silence public participation (Zurich/Switzerland) A delegation of Indigenous representatives from Sarawak were featured at a conference in Switzerland about SLAPP suits – an increasingly widespread legal strategy...

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