29 December 2015 Penan community leaders urge Adelaide University to pay back AUD $400,000 in donations received from former Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud LONG LAMAI (SARAWAK, MALAYSIA) / ADELAIDE (SOUTH AUSTRALIA) Indigenous leaders from Malaysian Borneo are urging Adelaide University to pay back AUD $ 400,000 in donations received...
This press release from SAVE Rivers details how Tuai Rumah Jambai was recently forced off the road while driving, beaten, and slashed with a sword in the latest of many attacks against him and his village. The attacks appear to be related to a land dispute case between Tung Huat...
This press release from the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) responds to the decision by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) to address major flaws in its auditing process to certify palm oil as ‘sustainable’ – exposed this week by the EIA report Who Watches the Watchmen? Flaws include...
In this press release by the Bruno Manser Fund, BMF states that the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) breached ITTO protocol by investing and losing US$ 18 million in public funds offshore in Australia and the Cayman Islands. After submitting questions related to the scandal to the ITTO, BMF was...
Indigenous communities successfully prevent any progress on the dam for two years Originally published in Earth Island Journal by Jettie Word In October, Indigenous activists from around the world gathered on the banks of the Baram River in Sarawak to celebrate the second anniversary of the Baram Dam blockades. Indigenous...
Press Release: SAVE Rivers, JOAS, BRIMAS, The Borneo Project, and Bruno Manser Fund 25 October 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE International indigenous anti-dam activists join two year anniversary celebration of blockades in Malaysia Indigenous resistance against the proposed Baram Dam receives international support for the celebration of the second year anniversary...
World Indigenous Summit on Environment and Rivers (WISER BARAM 2015) SAVE Rivers is working with local and international partners in a campaign to stop the government of Sarawak from building 12 mega-dams. If they are built, these dams will force tens of thousands of communities off of their land,...
Please join Executive Director Jettie Word of The Borneo Project to hear about one of the world’s greatest under-told stories: the struggle to preserve the rainforests of Borneo. For 25 years The Borneo Project has worked directly with indigenous and frontline communities in Malaysian Borneo to promote indigenous childhood education,...
Malaysia may be pushing ahead with its plans for a devastating series of 12 dams in the rainforests of Borneo that will kill a billion trees, bring death to wildlife on a stupendous scale and evict tens of thousands of indigenous people and their communities, writes Jettie Word. Now a...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 22, 2015 (Sarawak, Malaysia) The Borneo Project has released Broken Promises: Displaced by Dams, the third film in their series about the hydroelectric dams proposed for construction in Sarawak, Malaysia. Broken Promises tells the story of forced displacement of indigenous peoples to make way for these...
