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Members of communities in Baram and Mulu with the petition.

Sarawak government’s hydropower plans worry Indigenous communities

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 2 Feb 2024

Red flags but no repercussions for ‘certified’ Malaysian logger Samling: Report

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 1 Dec 2023

Malaysian logger Samling’s track record leaves Indigenous Sarawak questioning its plans

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 26 Oct 2023
Activists in Malaysia

Sarawak Indigenous NGO squeezed by defamation case, silenced from reporting alleged logging

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 16 May 2023

Malaysia revokes oil palm concession near UNESCO-listed Bornean park

Rachel Donald 5 Oct 2022
Forest in the Baram Peace Park area in November 2019. The Baram Peace Park – or Taman Damai Baram – is an Indigenous community-led initiative that aims to protect old-growth forest and traditional Indigenous lands in the upper Baram river basin near the border with Indonesia. Photo credit: The Borneo Project.

Survey captures Bornean ecosystems and Indigenous lives around them

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 5 Oct 2022

Indigenous activists in Borneo claim win as logging firm removes equipment from disputed area

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 2 Aug 2022

Malaysia’s Indigenous Penan block roads to stop logging in Borneo

Rachel Donald 14 Oct 2021

Dam builder denies responsibility as logjam chokes river in Malaysian Borneo

Rachel Donald 26 Aug 2021
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Aug 2021

Malaysian timber giant Samling takes conflict over logging activity to court

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 19 Aug 2021

For Malaysia’s Indigenous Penan, vaccine doubt is part of historic govt distrust

Rachel Donald 15 Jul 2021

Malaysian council opens hearing into claims of timber certification flaws

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 17 Jun 2021
The "Stop the Chop Protest" in Miri, Sarawak against Malaysian forestry company Samling in October 2020. Photo credit: The Borneo Project

‘Listening to communities must go beyond ticking compliance boxes’, says Peter Kallang, a Kenyah leader

Rhett A. Butler 9 Jun 2021

Threat of legal action against Indigenous Borneans protesting timber company

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 1 Jun 2021

In Malaysian Borneo’s rainforests, powerful state governments set their own rules

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 18 Feb 2021
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Timber organization’s backing ‘one step’ toward ‘peace park’ in Borneo

John Cannon 26 Jan 2021

Logging concession in Malaysian Borneo lacks consent of Indigenous communities (commentary)

Fiona McAlpine 13 Jul 2020
Gold and sand mining near Mandor, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The unrecognized cost of Indonesia’s fires (commentary)

Rhett A. Butler 7 Oct 2019

Notes from the road: 5 revelations from traveling the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 25 Sep 2019

Sarawak can invest in or give away its future (commentary)

Daniel Kammen 1 Apr 2019

Recovering conservationist: Q&A with orangutan ecologist June Mary Rubis

Basten Gokkon 15 Aug 2018
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

‘Single-minded determination’: China’s global infrastructure spree rings alarm bells

Basten Gokkon 17 Jul 2018

Implicit gender, racial biases may hinder effectiveness of conservation science, experts warn

Basten Gokkon 4 Jul 2018

‘Lost’ fairy lantern spotted in Malaysian Borneo after 151 years

Mongabay.com 4 Apr 2018

Sarawak’s Penan now have detailed maps of their ancestral homeland

John Cannon 20 Mar 2018

Leading US plywood firm linked to alleged destruction, rights violations in Malaysia

John Cannon 19 Oct 2017

Borneo’s ‘biocultural holocaust’: an interview with author Alex Shoumatoff

Rhett A. Butler 19 Jun 2017

The good, the bad, and the ugly in palm oil (commentary)

Erik Meijaard and Douglas Sheil 9 Sep 2016

Sarawak establishes 2.2M acres of protected areas, may add 1.1M more

Mike Gaworecki 19 Aug 2016

Malaysian land rights activist Bill Kayong murdered in broad daylight

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2016

How to use the Bloomberg Terminal for advocacy work: the basics

Dan Williams 6 May 2016

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