Shame On Samling For The Ultimate SLAPP Suit Warning

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...

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Threat of legal action against Indigenous Borneans protesting timber company

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...

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