Originally published in The Edge Markets by Cheryl Poo UALA LUMPUR (Aug 9): Local and international groups have called on Sawarak logging company Samling Plywood Sdn Bhd to drop its RM5 million defamation lawsuit against environmental group SAVE Rivers. This was stated by the Swiss-based Bruno Manser Fund and The...
Samling Group is suing local Sarawak civil society organisation and its directors in a SLAPP suit (MIRI / SARAWAK / MALAYSIA) Local Sarawak civil society organisation SAVE Rivers, as well as its directors, have been served with notice that Samling Plywood is filing suit against them for publishing allegedly defamatory...
Originally published in Free Malaysia Today Sarawak civil society organisations say communities around the Baram and Limbang rivers have been campaigning for more transparency regarding logging concessions. PETALING JAYA: Civil society organisations in Sarawak have urged a logging company to drop its suit against an NGO for defamation. Samling Plywood is...
The Kenyah Jamok community of Long Tungan in Upper Baram say they have not been consulted on matters affecting their land rights [Courtesy of The Borneo Project] Originally published in Al Jazeera Indigenous peoples from the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo are hopeful their objections to...
Basel mayor Beat Jans announces a $200,000 contribution to the International Tropical Timber Organization’s (ITTO) Upper Baram Forest Management Area – 24 indigenous communities in Malaysian Borneo are to benefit from the conservation and sustainable development of their forest lands. (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) Today, the Swiss Canton of Basel-Stadt (City of...
Originally published in Eco-Business Indigenous communities in Sarawak have been monitoring their forests for the past year, gathering data to counter a logging company’s assumptions about the value of their traditional lands. Last month, Indigenous Penan and Kenyah communities of the Baram and Limbang rivers lodged official complaints to the Malaysian...
Originally published in Mongabay by Sheryl Lee Tian Tong Penan and Kenyah Indigenous communities in Malaysian Borneo will be given a chance to formally air their complaints against a timber company operating in their traditional territory, following the start of a dispute resolution case between the two sides. The Malaysian...
