The timber company Samling has been encroaching into the area earmarked for the conservation zone of the Upper Baram Forest Area (also known as Baram Peace Park) in Northern Sarawak. Assistant Headman Suya Ara of Long Ajeng, one of the Penan communities currently affected, is alarmed and sending an alert...
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...
Originally published in the Sarawak Report Samling is one of the world’s most notorious timber raiders, protected for decades by the crony State Government of Sarawak. Like the other main Sarawak ‘Big Six’ logging and plantation concerns this company’s lawless, destructive and greedy exploits are responsible for ruining the lives...
