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...
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