2024 – SarawakReport
Dec 7, 2024 · The ITTO (International Tropical Timber Organisation) and Sarawak Forestry Department have turned a deaf ear to complaints by NGOs and native communities about illegitimate logging in the conservation zone – the Penan Peace Park in Baram – funded by international donations and supposedly sponsored by both bodies.
Sarawak’s Lip Service Only Eco-policies – SarawakReport
Aug 27, 2024 · 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 …
Malaysia’s Rainforest Threat Is Focused On Sarawak
Jun 2, 2024 · 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 ...
Time For Transparency In Sarawak – SarawakReport
Jul 27, 2024 · The Sarawak premier practices government by news announcement. Yet, self-serving announcements without proper transparency, access to the full facts or public scrutiny represent the stuff of totalitarian rule. Time and again the reality on the ground has proven to be the opposite of those newspaper claims. If the state wants clean investment and to join the clean energy race then it needs to ...
Malaysia Plans ‘Economic Miracle’ Off The Back Of Migrant …
2 days ago · Over the past few weeks the shocking scandal of the unpaid migrant workers in Malaysia’s Kawaguchi Manufacturing Sdn Bhd has unravelled in the media thanks to courageous campaigning by the workers’ rights advocate Andy Hall of the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) and brave workers themselves, forced to stand up to exploitation as their funds to feed themselves and families back home ran ...
Samling’s Blueprint Carbon Venture Raises Red Flags For Sarawak …
Apr 10, 2024 · Samling’s pilot carbon credit project, sanctioned under new legislation by the state government, could make billions for the company but represents extremely poor value for the public say experts.. The Marudi Forest Conservation and Restoration Project (MFCRP) under the timber giant’s special purpose subsidiary, SaraCarbon, is currently being assessed by the controversial Verra ...
Why Are Sarawakians’ Rights To Local Democracy Being Hijacked?
May 11, 2024 · 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 ...
Final Appeal Court Slams Sarawak’s Land Grab Tactics And Hints …
May 22, 2023 · 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 ...
Bye Bye Crocodile? – SarawakReport
Jan 31, 2024 · Abdul Taib Mahmud was levered out of the Governorship of Sarawak a month before the end of his extended term of office. However, apart from that, he departed largely on his own terms: he had remained in the job, deemed to grant him immunity from his actions over four decades in office, well past his ability to perform the role or to be sensibly brought to justice.
Stop The Criminals Behind The Illegal Looting Of Sarawak’s Last ...
Mar 8, 2023 · 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.