Malaysia’s Rainforest Threat Is Focused On Sarawak
2024年6月2日 · According to the latest report by the Malaysian environmental group RimbaWatch, the vast majority of remaining rainforest under grave threat from timber concessions is based in Sarawak – where the ruling party are pushing harder than ever for autonomy to pursue their cash ambitions.. The report released last week identifies that of 3.2 million hectares of forest threatened with obliteration ...
EU Must Classify Sarawak Timber As “High Risk” Under New Rules …
2024年9月23日 · The EU is due to enforce the so-called EUDR regulations (European Union Deforestation-Free Products) next year.Under the EUDR the Commission will designate countries or parts thereof as under the categories of “low, standard, or high risk” by December 30, 2024, based on the likelihood of being compatible with the regulations.. Any product from a High Risk country would require EU member ...
Fifty Years Of Native Abuse In Sarawak Must End
2023年2月5日 · The latest Penan blockade against loggers in the Baram area, and the way it has been handled, highlights a host of injustices facing the native people of Malaysia which this new reforming government must start to tackle. They must begin by according indigenous peoples their most basic rights of identity, something that plundering state …
Final Appeal Court Slams Sarawak’s Land Grab Tactics And Hints …
2023年5月22日 · After years, even decades, hundreds of Sarawak Land Grab cases are still wending their way through the courts, long after the native lands in question have been plundered and destroyed. The glaring issue in these David and Goliath battles is that the concessions themselves were almost without exception the product of corrupt cronyism and nepotism under the rule of the former chief minister and ...
Stop The Criminals Behind The Illegal Looting Of Sarawak’s Last ...
2023年3月8日 · Once again, the police (backed by local politicians) have moved to forcibly remove the blockades put up by indigenous Penan groups in Baram to attempt to discourage the loggers who have been laying illegal waste to some of the regions last remaining virgin forests and ‘protected’ Belian species.
Sarawak’s Lip Service Only Eco-policies – SarawakReport
2024年8月27日 · Local people are being thrown off their agricultural land in order to allegedly expand national parks while, at the same time, genuine forest pledged for conservation is still being left open to timber raiders. As ever, the Sarawak State Government is at the service of the logging tycoons whilst playing only lip service to the desperate current battle to …
New Logging Licences For Cronies Whilst Natives Get Kicked Off …
2024年7月29日 · As the GPS government seeks to make a show of its eco-credentials (with an eye to making billions out of carbon trading) it comes as no surprise that, once again, it is native communities who are taking the brunt of the pain and hardship.
Why Are Sarawakians’ Rights To Local Democracy Being Hijacked?
2024年5月11日 · Once again this week, the online Radio Free Sarawak has had reason to cover abuses of what ought to be the democratic appointment of village headmen in rural Sarawak.. The pattern has become increasingly familiar in recent months, if complaints to the show are anything to go by, in that a growing number of elected headmen have found themselves arbitrarily replaced, for example by the decision ...
Dayak Forum Brings Sarawak’s Indigenous Voices Together In Miri
2024年6月28日 · Opening speech by Dennis Along. A Welcome Supper on Friday night attended by scores of delegates from native communities and civil society NGOs across Sarawak saw a barnstorming opening to the first Dayak Forum being held in Miri this weekend.
Sarawak’s ‘Green’ Hydropower Gambit Is Based On A False Premise
2024年9月2日 · Some dam-and-reservoir hydropower facilities produce as much, or more, greenhouse gases as a coal-fired powerplant generating the same amount of electricity (see this presentation posted here, and this short video posted here).Further, various federal agencies in the U.S. — including the EPA — have studied, and are continuing to study, the full extent of GHG emissions that are produced by ...