Penan – ‘Our forests are disappearing’
Nine Penan leaders from Sarawak, Malaysia, told visitors to the World Rainforest Music Festival this month that their rainforest home was disappearing.
Nine Penan leaders from Sarawak, Malaysia, told visitors to the World Rainforest Music Festival this month that their rainforest home was disappearing.
Five new blockades have been set up by Penan tribal communities in the Malaysian province of Sarawak in an attempt to stop loggers destroying their forest homes.
Malaysian police in Sarawak have for a second time dismantled a blockade set up by members of the Penan tribe to protect their rainforest land from logging by Malaysian company Samling.
Members of the Penan tribe have rebuilt their logging blockade, a month after it was dismantled by police and loggers.
Members of a nomadic tribe who had been preventing loggers from bulldozing their rainforest home for two years have had their blockade dismantled by Malaysian police.
A small group of nomads on the island of Borneo are continuing to defy loggers targeting their rainforest home.
Malaysian logging company Interhill has dismantled a road blockade mounted in Sarawak by members of the Penan tribe to prevent the company cutting down their forest.
Hundreds of Penan hunter-gatherers have signed a letter of protest about a logging permit awarded to a notorious timber company.