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GROWING LOCAL OPPOSITION TO LOGGING IN BARAM FOREST
"Save our forest and stop the logging" - Baram Penan communities send clear message from the forest to Sarawak’s capital (KUCHING & BARAM...
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The Latest News from the
Baram Peace Park
- Mar 27
- 3 min
BARAM PEACE PARK COMMUNITIES SEE NO FUTURE IN LOGGING
While government and industry leaders meet in Kuching for a Sustainable Forest Management conference, Indigenous communities from...
- Feb 20
- 3 min
LAST NOMADIC PENAN BOYCOTT TIMBER CERTIFICATION
Certification body SIRIM uses Penan rejection of logging as a reason to reinstate certificate - Penan ask Samling representatives and...
- Nov 29, 2023
- 3 min
WITH TREE NURSERIES, THE PENAN ARE WORKING TO RESTORE THE RAINFOREST
With less than 10% of the primary rainforest remaining in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, the Indigenous Penan community works to restore...
- Jul 19, 2023
- 2 min
LAST NOMADS OF BARAM WANT TO LIVE UNDISTURBED
The Penan of Ba Jawi reject logging and forest certification and want to continue their lives as nomads (BA JAWI / BARAM / SARAWAK) In a...
- Jun 14, 2023
- 3 min
UPPER BARAM PENAN VILLAGES REJECT FOREST CERTIFICATION
The Penan villages of Long Lamai and Ba Lai refuse to participate in the ongoing forest certification process and ask timber giant...
- Mar 21, 2023
- 2 min
UPPER BARAM FOREST AREA SET TO LAUNCH
Communities from Upper Baram Forest Area welcome steps taken to realize the project, and hand over declaration to Forest Department...
- Nov 27, 2022
- 2 min
INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES COMPLETE BARAM HERITAGE SURVEY AND LAUNCH COMMUNITY ATLASES
Largest ever ecological and social survey of Baram reveals incredible abundance of species in Indigenous-managed forests...
- Jul 25, 2022
- 2 min
PENAN SUCCESSFULLY STOP TIMBER GIANT SAMLING FROM LOGGING IN CONSERVATION AREA
Samling withdraws from the Upper Baram Forest Area as Penan increase pressure with police report and blockade (BARAM / SARAWAK /...
- Sep 14, 2021
- 2 min
PENAN STEP UP CAMPAIGN TO SAVE SARAWAK'S LAST PRIMEVAL FORESTS FROM LOGGING
Timber giant Samling’s operations in Upper Baram blocked by joint community action – Penan communities denounce logging on their...
- Mar 7, 2021
- 3 min
COMMUNITY ALERTS SARAWAK GOVERNMENT OF ONGOING LOGGING IN UPPER BARAM FOREST AREA
Samling is encroaching into the territory of Long Ajeng, even though the Penan community is within the Upper Baram Forest Area/Baram...
- Mar 11, 2020
- 2 min
ECOLOGICAL SURVEY KICKS OFF IN BARAM COMMUNITIES
Communities in the Baram Area to collect data on flora, fauna, hunting, fishing and land use under the Baram Heritage Survey On the 2nd...
- Nov 26, 2017
- 2 min
BORNEO RAINFOREST COMMUNITIES COMPLETE 15-YEAR MAPPING EFFORT
63 Penan communities celebrate the completion of a series of 23 high quality maps representing their land, culture and history (SARAWAK /...
- Mar 21, 2017
- 2 min
BARAM VILLAGERS LEARN ABOUT COMMUNITY-BASED CONSERVATION EFFORTS AROUND BORNEO
Three delegations from the Baram Conservation Initiative returned from their study tours on Sunday with aspirations for community-based...
- Feb 22, 2017
- 2 min
DRAFT FOR LAND CONSERVATION GETS FOREST DEPT BACKING
Komeok (fourth right) and Kallang (second right) handing over the draft copy of the pre-proposal for a community initiated land and...
- Oct 28, 2016
- 2 min
LONG LAWEN: A STORY OF SELF-DETERMINED DEVELOPMENT
Representatives of the Baram Conservation Initiative visit Long Lawen to learn from a community that chose its own kind of development...
- Oct 21, 2016
- 2 min
LAUNCHING OF BARAM CONSERVATION INITIATIVE
Following the cancellation of the Baram Dam, the communities of Baram are proud to announce the launch of the Baram Conservation...
- May 23, 2012
- 2 min
MALAYSIA'S PENAN PRESENT THEIR IDEAS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THEIR TRADITIONAL FORESTS
Malaysia’s Penan present their ideas for the preservation of their traditional forests - Indigenous Penan communities from Upper Baram,...
- Dec 21, 2010
- 2 min
PENAN GO TO COURT TO DEFEND HEART OF BORNEO RAINFORESTS
Ba Jawi community sues logging group Samling and the Sarawak state government in order to protect 15,000 hectares of...
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