FSC called to withdraw Sarawak timber giant Samling’s licence Originally published on TimberBiz A coalition of civil society organizations is calling on the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) to drop Sarawak timber giant Samling and withdraw its FSC Licence Agreement under a Policy for Association complaint. Source: Timberbiz The complaint names...
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...
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...
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...
Sarawak Governor’s daughter, Jamilah Taib Murray, and her Canadian real estate firms face criminal proceedings for false accusation against Swiss NGO, the Bruno Manser Fonds (BASEL/OTTAWA/KUCHING) Swiss prosecutors are about to reopen criminal proceedings against Malaysian-Canadian real estate millionaire Jamilah Taib Murray and her real estate group Sakto Corporation for...
Samling withdraws from the Upper Baram Forest Area as Penan increase pressure with police report and blockade (BARAM / SARAWAK / MALAYSIA) Penan communities have filed a police report and erected blockades to stop logging in the area of the mountain of Batu Siman in Northern Sarawak. In May and...
We live in the age of wonder, terror, and medicine. The Webb Telescope recently expanded our wonder with gob-smackingly beautiful glimpses into a universe so large and complex it undermines our human-centered view of reality. We now know that even the darkest parts of the night sky overflow with countless...
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...
Originally published on Southeast Asia Globe by Fiona Kelliher A coalition in Sarawak is speaking out against a lawsuit criticised as part of a ‘chilling’ corporate litigation trend designed to stifle investigations and complaints Remnants from illegal logging line the ground of a forest in Borneo. Photo: Adek Berry/AFP Things...
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...
