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A HISTORY OF THE PENAN STRUGGLE IN SARAWAK, MALAYSIA
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Orangutans
New Orangutan Population in Sangkulirang, East Kalimantan
Orang Metropolis Uncovered
Only 2,000 Orang-utans Left in Sarawak
Saving Orangutans Means Saving The Forests
Explorer's Notebook: Orangutans Headed Toward "Catastrophe"
Indonesian Trade Ban on Rainforest Wood Aids Orangutans
Sarawak
Part 7 - Bruno Manser, Land Rights
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Part 5 - Blockades
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Sarawak Activist Tours California
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An Inside Look Into Borneo's Realities
Summer 2002
Where the Wild Things Are
Borneo News Flash
The Troubled State of Kalimantan's Forest
Managing Their Own Future
Microhydro System Powers Sarawak Village
Unified Penan Speak Out
Winter 2001
Where the Wild Things Are
Rainforest Cures in Danger
Borneo News Flash
Malaysians Help Russians Prepare for Logging Onslaught
New Threats, Opportunities to Mapping Program
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Verdict Secures Native Land Rights
Forest Survey Complete Despite Deadly Snake Bite
Borneo News Flash
Bakun Dam to Go Ahead at Full Size
Micro-hydro Nears Completion
Borneo By Numbers
Travel to The World's Oldest Rainforest
Penan Blockade Timber Roads
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News & Archives
Remote Sarawak school charts road to cyberfame: Brunei Times
No suspects in mysterious death of Malaysian tribesman who fought logging, police say: Int'l Herald Tribune
Penan children and gov't schools: Borneo Post article
'Stay out!' Angry Penan villagers tell loggers: Malaysiakini
Penan chief found dead, foul play suspected
Penan survival in the news: AP and AFP
Penan leader Kelesau reported missing
Indigenous Peoples Shut Out of Climate Talks, Plans
Malaysia & Indonesia among top ten worst countries for indigenous rights: Survival
New blockade and lawsuits by Iban community of Rumah Nor against logging and roads!
Rivers & Dams
Baram residents affected by proposed dam demand environmental studies
Bakun cost over-runs
Life After Bakun & Govt Needs to Rethink
Manganese smelter in SCORE
Experts to study dam impacts
Baru Bian decries dam plans
SCORE industry list
Kaiduan Dam, Sabah: Background
China-Malaysia Dam Deal Signed
Map of dams & dam plans in Sarawak
Animals and Nature
New Borneo wildlife finds
Spotted Leopard in Sebangau (BBC)
Small, Isolated Elephants Follow Own Evolutionary Path
Billions At Stake In Palm Oil Battle Over Orang-Utans
Cultured 'Man of Forest' in Peril
Orang Metropolis Uncovered
Wildfires blamed for greenhouse gas rise
Only 2,000 Orang-utans Left in Sarawak
Minister Admits Jakarta Unable To Curb Forest Fires
Study Shows There May be Hope for Orang-Utans
Bakun Dam
Bakun cost over-runs
Life After Bakun & Govt Needs to Rethink
Natives lose Bakun Dam appeal
Natives lose appeal in Bakun Dam case -- Sahabat Alam Malaysia
Map of dams & dam plans in Sarawak
Kua Kia Soong on dams & injustice
Ban Bakun Dam Burning! SCANE / The Star
New dams in Peninsular Malaysia?
Planned cable to send Bakun power to Peninsular Malaysia
Blockades
"Peace deal" to Push Penan into Gov't Schemes
Penan Blockades
Iban villages blockade logging of communal forest reserve
Court upholds right to blockade
Imminent Police Action Against Five New Penan Blockades-- ALERT
Penan Blockade Demolished: Samling bulldozing new logging road, destroying community's primary rainforests
Penan blockades protest logging in Sarawak, prevent road construction in primary forests
Update on Medihit and Pengaran Iman Blockades
Penan Blockades Update
Baram's Penan Community - Hungry, Poor And Sick
Bruno Manser
No Evidence to Show Swiss Environmentalist Dead: Police
Without a Trace
Penan defender Bruno Manser believed to be dead: friends, family
No Sign of Borneo Forest Crusader
Totem for Bruno Manser
In Remembrance of Bruno
Swiss Activist Missing in Borneo
Lost in the Borneo Jungle
Message by 17 Penan Leaders on Bruno Manser
SWISS ACTIVIST BRUNO MANSER MISSING IN BORNEO
Climate
Indonesia drops designation of plantations as forests
Global Warming Treaty Negotiations Offer Hope and Peril for Indigenous Peoples (Joe Lamb)
Impasse Over Gas Emissions
Ban Bakun Dam Burning! SCANE / The Star
Indonesia applies for WB forest CO2 scheme (Reuters)
Kalimantan/Indonesia
Indonesia drops designation of plantations as forests
New Orangutan Population in Sangkulirang, East Kalimantan
Indonesian NGOs criticize biofuel plantations & REDD
Importing Destruction: How U.S. imports of Indonesia’s tropical hardwoods are devastating indigenous communities and ancient forests. Report for RAN by Jessica Lawrence, Noriko Toyoda & Helvi Lystiani
Peaceful Sarawak Now Has a Security Threat
Minister Admits Jakarta Unable To Curb Forest Fires
Indonesia: Govt To Set Up Green Crimes Team
Thousands Meet in Indonesia to Prepare for "Earth Summit"
Indonesian President Calls for a Moratorium on Logging
Escalating Conflict at Tanjung Puting National Park
Land Rights/Human Rights
Injunction stops Rumah Nor demolition; NGOs protest govt demolition of village homes; Judge's ruling expected August 2, 2010
Baru Bian decries dam plans
Define native customary lands
NGOs Protest Demolition at Rumah Nor
Two NCR victories uphold customary land rights
Community resists Sarawak govt demolition of Iban village
Borneo Natives Proclaim Tropical Forest Reserve
Baru Bian is new PKR Sarawak head
Gov't releases report on sexual abuse of Penan girls
Cronyism, Corruption, and Displacement - Bloomberg
Legal Battles
Rumah Nor eviction prevented!
Natives lose Bakun Dam appeal
Natives lose appeal in Bakun Dam case -- Sahabat Alam Malaysia
Injunction stops Rumah Nor demolition; NGOs protest govt demolition of village homes; Judge's ruling expected August 2, 2010
Define native customary lands
NGOs Protest Demolition at Rumah Nor
Two NCR victories uphold customary land rights
Community resists Sarawak govt demolition of Iban village
Penan to sue Sarawak gov't over logging, plantations
Iban villages blockade logging of communal forest reserve
Logging
Logging in Sarawak and the Rights of Indigenous Communities -- JOANGHUTAN / IDEAL report
Penan to sue Sarawak gov't over logging, plantations
Penan Blockades
Iban villages blockade logging of communal forest reserve
Papua riots sparked by Sarawak logging company
Rimbunan Hijau statement on Papua riots
Kenyah protest Samling logging
Credit Suisse asked to pay back profits of Samling listing
Community Stops Illegal Logging in Sabah
Greens lobby against Indonesian wood
Malaysian Politics/Culture
Borneo logging tycoons behind California new town disaster
Samling kickbacks to Taibs in Seattle?
US Connection: Taib the Godfather!
Taib family London property
Did Borneo logging buy Seattle FBI building? Sarawak CM Taib's family owns it!
Sarawak Chief Minister's family assets in Canada
Manganese smelter in SCORE
China-Malaysia Dam Deal Signed
Baru Bian is new PKR Sarawak head
Cronyism, corruption & displacement (Bloomberg)
Oil Palm, Plantations, Biofuels
Indonesia drops designation of plantations as forests
SCORE industry list
Impasse Over Gas Emissions
Indigenous Peoples: Stop New Plantations!
Unilever calls for end to deforeststion
Malaysian govt denies Amazon oil palm plans
Few oil palm joint ventures pay dividends to communities
Communities reject oil palm schemes
Indonesian NGOs criticize biofuel plantations & REDD
Why biofuels are the rainforest's worst enemy
Penan
Penan to sue Sarawak gov't over logging, plantations
"Peace deal" to Push Penan into Gov't Schemes
Borneo Natives Proclaim Tropical Forest Reserve
Victims of sex predators
Gov't releases report on sexual abuse of Penan girls
Govt refuses funds to investigate rape of Penan girls
Sexual abuse of Penan women by Loggers: BMF & Press
Video "Penusah Tana: Penan land rights struggle". By H. Chiew & C. Too
Long Kerong Headman’s death requires transparent Police probe: SUARAM and press
Penan leader's body to be exhumed
Sabah
Kaiduan Dam, Sabah: Background
Sabah's indigenous communities claim over 300,000 ha of customary lands
Native Land Rights will be upheld in land alienation process: Sabah State Gov't
Department: Loggers Found To Breach EIA Conditions
Uncertain Future for Malaysia's Indonesian Migrants
Another Problem Besets Sabah Timber Industry
No Timber Left In Sabah Forests
Timber Firms May Lose Contracts
Sabah to Review Unfavourable Timber Pacts with Private Sector
Malaysia: Sabah Beefing up Forest Department to Fight Corruption
Sarawak
Probe Taib, Japanese NGOs urge PM
Tribes Effectively Barred from Making High-Tech Maps
Sarawak Chief Minister Implicated in Timber Scandal
Sarawak Forestry Corporation to be launched on June 9
Sarawak Rivers Lose Their Fish to Pollution
Bio-Tourism to Get Big Play in Sarawak
Peaceful Sarawak Now Has a Security Threat
Only 2,000 Orang-utans Left in Sarawak
Aluminium Smelter to be Set Up
Iban and Bidayuh Communities Suing Oil Palm Company for Encroachment of NCR
Technology/Biotechnology
Baram residents affected by proposed dam demand environmental studies
Experts to study dam impacts
Bario microhydro generator commissioned
Conservation agreements signed to protect local rainforest; microhydro turbine on its way to Bario, Kelabit highlands, Sarawak
Exploit Fully Borneo's Rich Natural Resources
Bidayuh First to Step Forward
Shift in Natural Forestry Resource Usage Seen
The Biotech Boom: Creating frankenforests
Bio-pirates stalk Borneo tribes' treasure trove
Bio-Pirates Raid Trees in the Swamps of Borneo
The Borneo Project & Other Non-Profits
Village Mapping Program Threatened
The Dam the Dayaks Dread
Sarawak Activist Gets Back Passport After Nine Years
The Borneo Project Thinks Ahead
Map Helps Amazon Indians Claim Their Rain Forest
SAM to Expand Forest Rehabilitation Project to Northern Sarawak
Micro-Hydro System Powers Sarawak Village
Survivor: For Borneo's People, It's Not Just a TV Show
Tribes of Borneo Fight for Land
Penan in Nursery Project
Timber Certification
Malaysian activists walk out in protest of timber trade consultation (FLEGT)
Our Work
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Legal Aid Fund for 2010
Borneo & Global Climate
Dalam Bahasa Malaysia: Tentang filem "Rumah Nor: Suatu Ujian Hak Milik Bagi Malaysia"
Microhydro systems protect rainforests & rivers, strengthen community rights
Ibans of Sungai Bong win Wrongful Arrest Court Case!
Rumah Nyawin DEMOLISHED by Sarawak gov't-- Iban community devastated, seeks emergency assistance
Help Bario Asal build a microhydro system and protect rainforest!
Watch our documentary online: Rumah Nor: A Land Rights Test for Malaysia
Sarawak activist jailed for reporting death threat; YOU can help him map and save community forests in 2007!
Updates
Borneo logging tycoons behind California new town disaster
Samling kickbacks to Taibs in Seattle?
US Connection: Taib the Godfather!
Rumah Nor eviction prevented!
Taib family London property
Did Borneo logging buy Seattle FBI building? Sarawak CM Taib's family owns it!
Sarawak Chief Minister's family assets in Canada
New Borneo wildlife finds
Logging in Sarawak and the Rights of Indigenous Communities -- JOANGHUTAN / IDEAL report
Global Warming Treaty Negotiations Offer Hope and Peril for Indigenous Peoples (Joe Lamb)