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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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Baram Peace Park
- Aug 22
- 2 min
BARAM SATELLITE IMAGES DEBUNK "NO MASSIVE LOGGING" CLAIM
Satellite analysis reveals logging road expansion nearing core protection zone of government backed project in the Baram River Basin...
- Jul 8
- 1 min
ALARMING NEW LOGGING PROJECT EXPOSED IN INDIGENOUS CONSERVATION ZONE
Malaysian Borneo’s last primary rainforests under threat despite international conservation promises (Ba Data Bila, Sarawak, Malaysia) A...
- 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...
- Jan 15
- 2 min
LAST PENAN NOMADS WANT TO LIBERATE THEIR TERRITORIES FROM CERTIFIED LOGGING
Penan communities are dismayed that Samling’s forest certificate was reinstated even though serious problems remain unresolved. They...
- Nov 15, 2023
- 3 min
LOST IN CERTIFICATION: NEW REPORT EXPOSES GREENWASHING IN MALAYSIAN TIMBER INDUSTRY
Analysis reveals critical cracks in logging operations managed by timber giant Samling and certified by MTCS, a program endorsed by PEFC...
- 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...
- 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 /...
- Jul 13, 2022
- 3 min
TIMBER GIANT SAMLING ENTERS FOREST EARMARKED FOR CONSERVATION, SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW
Logging company Samling extracts timber near culturally important site - Penan communities outraged (LONG AJENG / 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 24, 2020
- 2 min
INDIGENOUS LEADERS QUESTION ONGOING OIL PALM AND TIMBER ACTIVITIES DURING COVID-19 LOCKDOWN
Oil palm and timber companies received permits to continue work in Sarawak despite national lockdown – indigenous leaders criticise the...
- May 5, 2015
- 2 min
SARAWAK CHIEF MINISTER SURPRISES LONDON WITH FOREST PLEDGE
Adenan Satem uses first official overseas visit to reach out to NGOs and call for international support to transform the Sarawak timber...
- 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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