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...
June, 2022 Dear friends, I just arrived back in the Bay Area after several weeks in Europe with a Malaysian delegation from Sarawak, where we spoke with EU officials about the serious problems with the Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme (MTCS). A few weeks prior, I was finally able to travel...
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...
In conjunction with MTCC’s participation at PEFC International’s upcoming members meeting in Dublin, civil society organisations argue MTCC is unable to uphold timber certification standards. May 10, 2022(MIRI / SARAWAK / MALAYSIA) As the Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC) attends the members’ meeting for the Programme for the Endorsement of...
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...
