This story was written by Joseph Lee for Grist. You can subscribe to Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP via Getty Images Indigenous leaders from around the world are calling for a bigger role in negotiations at the United Nations’ Biodiversity Conference which convenes today in Montreal. Known as COP15,...
Timber giant Samling has stopped logging and withdrawn its machinery from a key conservation area! Throughout the Covid years we’ve been hard at work with local communities to #StopTheChop. These efforts have pressured Samling to withdraw from several sites on Indigenous territory in the upper Baram River Basin. This shows how our coalition of grassroots organizations with relatively...
This story was written by Joseph Lee for Grist. You can subscribe to Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Photo by Martin San Diego for The Washington Post via Getty Images The world’s healthiest, most biodiverse, and most resilient forests are located on protected Indigenous lands. That’s according to a new study that suggests...
December, 2022 Dear Friends of The Borneo Project, Another epic year in the books for us! This year saw the culmination of many years of work at The Borneo Project. We were finally able to put boots on the ground and meet our partners in person after two long years...
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...
brytta / Getty Images via Grist A new report says expanding biodiversity protections are a threat to human rights. This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here. To conserve the planet’s biodiversity, countries around the world have pushed to create protected areas. The United Nations...
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...
