February Updates
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Updates
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium Inauguration Overshadowed by Rainforest Destruction
SDGs Undermined; NGOs Demand Accountability from Tokyo 2020 Organizers Last month, to mark the inauguration of the new national Olympic stadium in Tokyo, 12 NGOs issued the following statement, denouncing the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium’s severe negative impact on the tropical rainforests in Indonesia and Malaysia as a result of...
SAVE Rivers’ Peter Kallang wins Seacology Prize 2019!
Legendary Sarawakian activist Peter Kallang is the winner of the 2019 Seacology Prize, an award that recognises the achievements of individuals protecting island environments. Peter is the Chairman of SAVE Rivers, the organisation that led the fight against the proposed Baram mega hydrodam project. Peter’s home is the Baram region...
Ways to prevent Borneo’s forest fires from happening again
Want to prevent toxic haze? Start supporting frontline campaigns Clouds of toxic haze are drifting across the Malaysian peninsula once again, in the worst uncontrolled burnoff since 2015. Like the Amazon, these smog-belching fires are deliberately lit for agricultural purposes. In this part of the world the main culprits are...
Oil palm plantations are not ‘forests’
Wong Ee Lynn | Published: 29 Aug 2019 It was with bewilderment that I read the letter, “Europe should congratulate us for our oil palms” and my bewilderment grew when I realised the writer, a purportedly educated man, was not being sarcastic but in earnest. Plantations cannot fall into the category of jungles, or...
We don’t want you to give a “dam”, Sabah indigenous activists tell Putrajaya
PUTRAJAYA, 5 September 2019: Representatives from 9 villages which will be affected by the construction of the Papar dam in Sabah, marched to Putrajaya today to appeal to the Prime Minister to help stop the construction of the dam. The group is representing the Taskforce Against Kaiduan Dam (TAKAD) which...
Raging fires in the Amazon and Asia — what you can do to help
The Amazon is not the only place on fire this month, as industrial agriculture causes devastation across the tropics August 2019 is a record breaking fire season across the tropics. Most of us saw the disturbing satellite images from the Amazon shared on social media over the last week, our...
Indigenous Penan and Berawan communities file lawsuit against palm oil development destroying rainforests near the UNESCO-protected Gunung Mulu National Park
This press release is a repost from our project partners at Bruno Manser Fund. To find out more about the Mulu case and how you can help head to savemulu.org 14 plaintiffs representing 10 indigenous Penan and Berawan villages from Sarawak filed a lawsuit Tuesday at the High Court of...