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Fall 2007 Newsletter

Penan Community Preschools

Penan Community Preschools in Borneo Need Your Support!

A Berkeley Borneo Breakfast Brainstorm with Bill Bevis

A HISTORY OF THE PENAN STRUGGLE IN SARAWAK, MALAYSIA

SHOP INTELLIGENTLY TO HELP SAVE BORNEO'S RAINFORESTS

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

Part 7 - Bruno Manser, Land Rights

Part 6 - Bakun Dam, Oil Palm Plantations

Part 5 - Blockades

Part 4 - Logging

Part 3 - Ethnic and Biological Diversity

Part 1 - Early History

Part 2 - The Brooke Era

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Where the Wild Things Are

Borneo News Flash

Borneo Micro-Hydro Program Builds on Success

Maidu Experience Offers Hope, Warnings for Borneo Tribes

Sarawak Activist Tours California

An Inside Look Into Borneo's Realities

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

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

Previous Issues (Since 1994)

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

Reforestation & Crafts Provide Opportunities

Borneo News Flash

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!

Ban Bakun Dam Burning! SCANE / The Star

Indonesia applies for WB forest CO2 scheme (Reuters)

Map of dams & dam plans in Sarawak

Arrest & release of leaders opposing Murum Dam on Malaysia's National Day

Kua Kia Soong on dams & injustice

Dam EIAs in limbo - Hornbill Unleashed

New dams in Peninsular Malaysia?

Dams and "Family Business"

Sarawak dams threaten forests & people

Baram Fish Kill

NO MORE "BAKUNS"! NGOs oppose hydroelectric dams on native lands & Mulu

Animals and Nature

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

Escalating Conflict at Tanjung Puting National Park

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

Dams and "Family Business"

Bakun Demolition Stopped

Court halts demolition of Bakun houses

Longhouse folks affected by Bakun project seek help

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

More Penans Try To Stop Loggers

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

Kalimantan/Indonesia

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

Indonesia Starts Construction on 98-Kilometre Forest Fence

Land Rights/Human Rights

Cronyism, Corruption, and Displacement - Bloomberg

Indigenous Peoples: Stop New Plantations!

Malaysia highest court affirms tribes' land rights

Federal Court Affirms Broad Definition of Native Customary Rights

Rumah Sengok Update

Malaysian authorities block march on 1st anniversary of UN Declaration

Indigenous Peoples Network to UN Human Rights Council

Berawan & Kayan assert corporate land grab

UN Indigenous Peoples' Day -- Survival International's 'unholy trinity'

UN Adopts Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Natives welcome Federal Court's Decision

Malaysia highest court affirms tribes' land rights

Federal Court Affirms Broad Definition of Native Customary Rights

Rumah Sengok Update

Court upholds right to blockade

Baru Bian clarifies Rumah Nor appeal issues

Federal Court dismisses Rumah Nor appeal

Rumah Nor court victory

Malaysian Plantation Firm to Pay 1.1 Million Dollars over Indonesia Haze

Iban and Bidayuh Communities Suing Oil Palm Company for Encroachment of NCR

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

Environmental Investigators Expose Laundering of Illegal Indonesian Timber by Malaysia and Singapore

Lumber and Paper Giants to Announce Ban of Indonesian Wood and Pulp

Government To Impose Ban On Imported Squared Logs From Indonesia

Sarawak TIDC to Monitor Removal of Bakun Timber

Malaysian Politics/Culture

Cronyism, Corruption, and Displacement - Bloomberg

Malaysian tycoon arrested on illegal logging charges

Malaysia: Controversy Rages Over Website Raid

Malaysia: Raid Bad News for Free Media

First-time Illegal Immigrants May be Whipped

Media: Casualty in Malaysia's War on Terror?

Malaysia Expects Mild El Niño, Watches Haze

Haze to Stay Until Early 2003: Minister

Open Letter to the Malaysian and Sarawak State Governments

Keeping Our Forests Alive for Our Use

Oil Palm, Plantations, Biofuels

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

Indonesian NGOs criticize biofuel plantations & REDD

Why biofuels are the rainforest's worst enemy

Indonesia applies for WB forest CO2 scheme (Reuters)

Online video: "What Rainforest?" portrays Sarawak land seizures for logging and oil palm

Hundreds forced from Bintulu District homes

Sarawak's Indigenous Peoples Land Rights Must Be Recognized: International Fact Finding Mission

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

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

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

Plan for Streamlined Land Law Covering All States

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

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

Satellite Technology for More Efficient Forest Management

Doubts Raised on Whether Anti-AIDS Drug From Sarawak Will Ever be Developed by Malaysia

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)

Support community preschools

Legal Aid Fund for 2009

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!

Arrest & release of leaders opposing Murum Dam on Malaysia's National Day

Baru Bian is new PKR Sarawak head

Penan Blockades

Iban villages blockade logging of communal forest reserve

Gov't releases report on sexual abuse of Penan girls

Cronyism, corruption & displacement (Bloomberg)