Malaysia

Articles from the WRM Bulletin

2019

• Infrastructure From and For Forest Communities: The MicroHydro Power in Long Liam, Sarawak

• Infrastructure and Extraction: A Host of Deforestation

• Indigenous territories in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, threatened by monoculture plantations

• Green discourses and deforestation

2018

• Borneo: Penan village successfully resists logging operations

2017

• Southeast Asia: Strengthening resistance beyond boundaries

• Malaysia: Stop recognising plantations as forests, FAO is told

• Malaysia: Indigenous groups from around the globe discuss anti-dam struggles

• Biodiversity offsetting and biodiversity corridors in Asia: Nature destruction and protection acting in tandem

2015

• Moratorium on the Baram Dam in Sarawak, Malaysia, approved!

• Malaysia: Indigenous groups from around the globe adopt anti-dam declaration

• Financialized capital and palm oil corporations

• China and Malaysia: furthering plantations and GE Trees

• Broken Promises in Malaysia: Displaced by Dams

• Banking on biodiversity in Sabah, Malaysia

2014

• Victory over Malaysian land grabbers in Papua New Guinea

• Malaysia: Asian Development Bank Urged to Shelve Loan For Power Grid in Sarawak

• Malaysia, Sarawak: Native customary landowners continue to protest against large scale oil palm plantation schemes

2013

• Take action for indigenous rights in Sarawak

• Modern-day slavery in oil palm plantations: The outstanding cases of Malaysia and Indonesia

• Mega-dams in Sarawak: how indigenous peoples rise to defend their rights

• Malaysia: Penan indigenous peoples threatened by logging and mega dam

2012

• Malaysia: Baram Dam would flood indigenous communities to benefit mining in Borneo

2011

• Malaysia: Landmark decision against oil palm joint venture companies

• Asian forests lost to pet’s market

2010

• Malaysia: Penan demand against government for forestry licenses

2009

• Malaysia: River siltation due to deforestation underlying severe floods in Sarawak

• Malaysia: Indigenous Peoples call for a moratorium on large-scale tree plantations

2008

• Malaysia: Those who lose in the oil palm business

• Malaysia: The logging trail leading to tree monocultures in Sarawak

• Malaysia: Severe health effects of pesticides on workers in oil palm plantations

• Malaysia: Sarawak forest peoples harassed by logging and dams

• Malaysia: Indonesian children and migrant workers enslaved in oil palm plantations

• Malaysia: Blockades against Sarawak oil palm company

2002

• Malaysia: The long struggle of the Penan of Sarawak to protect their forest

• Malaysia: Self-defense blockades from Sarawak indigenous peoples

• Malaysia: Penang’s mangroves and biodiversity conservation

• Malaysia: Forests are much more than trees for the Semai

2001

• Malaysia: New law will make community mapping illegal

• Malaysia: Local organizations withdraw from certification process

• Malaysia: Good news from Iban community but no news about Bruno Manser’s disappearance in Sarawak

• Malaysia: Exporting social and environmental impacts of oil palm monocultures

• Malaysia: Each prawn produced represents a teardrop

• Malaysia: Blockade against logging in Sarawak forests

• Malaysia: Bakun Dam project once again relaunched

2000

• Malaysia: why the Selangor Dam?

• Malaysia: Where is Bruno Manser?

• Malaysia: The end of the GTZ-funded ‘FOMISS’ project in Sarawak

• Malaysia: Resistance against logging and oil palm in Sarawak

• Malaysia: Penans’ blockade against logging in Sarawak

• Malaysia: Penan letter on Bruno Manser, missing in Sarawak

• Malaysia: Penan indigenous people and protected areas in Sarawak

• Malaysia: How to destroy forests in Sarawak by planting trees

• Malaysia: Campaign against plantation and pulp mill project in Sabah

1999

• Sarawak: indigenous peoples defend their rights

• Malaysia: who is defending the country’s sovereignty in Sarawak?

• Malaysia: the sad role of the academic sector

• Malaysia: the “progress” brought by the Bakun dam in Sarawak

• Malaysia: resistance to plantations in Sarawak

• Malaysia: opposition to dam megaproject

• Malaysia: Oil palm development generates violence in Sarawak

• Malaysia: conflict caused by Bakun dam continues in Sarawak

• Malaysia: certification against peoples’ rights in Sarawak

1998

• “A fortune for the people” of Sarawak?

• Sarawak: sustainable forest management?

• Sarawak: indigenous rights ignored

• Sarawak: Dayak Ibans sue the police

• Sarawak: Amnesty International’s call for action

• Malaysian logging in African forests

• Defer Resettlement of Bakun residents in Sarawak

• Action for Sarawak

1997

• Sarawak: violence against natives continues

• Sarawak: Pressure was effective

• Sarawak: in the morass of corruption

• Sarawak: Bakun Dam

• Malaysians in South Africa, South Africans in Brazil

• Good news from Sarawak

• Concern for events in Sarawak

• Call for action on Sarawak

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