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Sarawak communities gather data to challenge claims made by logging company
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...
Malaysian council opens hearing into claims of timber certification flaws
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...
Indigenous communities threatened with legal action by timber giant as flooding devastates Sarawak
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Indigenous communities threatened with legal action by logging giant as floods devastate Sarawak
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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...
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...
NGOs: Complaints lodged over certification of two logging concessions
Originally published in The Borneo Post MIRI (May 21): Some 36 Dayak communities in Ulu Baram and Ulu Limbang last week filed official complaints with the Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC) against the certification of two logging concessions, according to two non-govenrmental organisations (NGO). The Borneo Project and Bruno Manser...
