Malaysia's current opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, has pledged to cancel the controversial Baram Dam in Sarawak if upcoming general elections sweep him into the office of Prime Minister. Ibrahim made…
Villagers blocking the road to Murum dam September 26, 2012. Photo courtesy of Bruno Manser Fond.. Members of the Penan tribe have suspended their month long blockade of the Murum…
Over 300 Penan people are living in makeshift shelters as they blockade roads to the Murum dam construction site. Photo courtesy of Sarawak Conservation Alliance for Natural Environment (SCANE). Indigenous…
Logging roads and damaged forest in Sarawak compared with the healthy forest of Brunei. Photo courtesy of Google Earth. Abdul Taib Mahmud, who has headed the Malaysian state of Sarawak…
Bakun dam during construction. Photo by: Mohamad Shoox. Indigenous people from the Malaysian state of Sarawak have sent a letter to the German company, Fichtner GmbH & Co. KG, demanding…
Bakun dam during construction. Photo by: Mohamad Shoox. The world's third largest mining company, Rio Tinto, and a local financial and construction firm, Cahya Mata Sarawak (CMS), have cancelled plans…
Last October indigenous groups, local people, and domestic NGOs formed the Save Sarawak's Rivers Network to fight the planned construction of a dozen dams in the Malaysian state on the…
The elusive bay cat, taken by motion-triggered camera-trap in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Copyright: J. Brodie & A. Giordano. Although known to science for 138 years, almost…
Traveling on the Kerong River with the Penan. Photo courtesy of Gavin Bate. News about the Penan people is usually bleak. Once nomadic hunter-gatherers of the Malaysian state of Sarawak…
Indigenous tribes in Borneo suffered a stinging defeat Thursday after Sarawak's highest court ruled against them in 12-year-long legal battle. Tribal groups had challenged the Malaysian state government for seizing…
A 'green' building development being built by Frasers Property Australia in Sydney has been accused of using illegally-sourced plywood from Malaysian state of Sarawak in Borneo, according to a new…
Not seen since 1924 and never photographed: an adult female Borneo Rainbow Toad, also referred to as Sambas Stream Toad (Ansonia latidisca). Photo © Dr. Indraneil Das. Scientists are elated…
A thousand Penan indigenous people have been forcibly moved from their rainforest home to monoculture plantations, reports Survival International. To make way for the Murum dam, the Malaysian state government…
Logging roads criss-cross Sarawak's forests. Photo courtesy of Google Earth. At the end of this month it will be 30 years since Abdul Taib Mahmud came to power in the…
Along Sega never knew exactly how old he was, but when he passed away yesterday in a hospital far from the forest where he born, he was likely in his…
