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$2.10 Daily wage paid to laborers in Malaysian oil palm plantations.

230 lbs. Amount of rice needed to feed a family of five for a year.

44% Portion of income oil palm worker must spend on rice to feed a family of five.

$100 Price per ton of unprocessed oil palm fruit bunches in 1998.

$13 Price per ton of unprocessed oil palm fruit bunches in 2001.

$158 million Government subsidies paid to Malaysian oil palm developers in the first quarter of 2001.

29.6 million acres Total land area of Sarawak.

1.48 million acres Total land area allocated for oil palm plantations.

2.47 million acres Total land area allocated for mono-culture tree plantations.

$527 Price per ton for raw logs sold in Sarawak's coastal town of Miri.

$7 Compensation paid to Penan villagers for each raw log ton extracted from ancestral forests.

$13,500 Retail cost per ton of sawn Malaysian tropical hardwood in California lumber yard.

9,148 Number of people evacuated from ancestral homelands to make way for Bakun Dam.

86,450 acres Area of customary land used by indigenous groups before the Bakun exodus.

9,880 acres Amount of land available at the resettlement site of Asap/Koyan.

10 acres Amount of farming land needed to sustain a family, as requested resettlers before moving.

7 acres Size of farm land the government promised each family.

3 acres Farm area finally allocated to each family at Asap/Koyan.