By Jettie Word | Director
Dear friends,
We're only a few weeks into 2024 but a lot is already underway for communities campaigning for climate justice in Borneo!
This month, communities that will be potentially impacted by a proposed cascading dam project are busy collecting signatures for a petition. The petition is currently 500 signatures strong and demands that community interests and Indigenous rights be upheld regarding any dam developments.
Read the press release at saverivers.org
Also this month, some of the last nomadic Penan communities submitted documentation to timber giant Samling to assert their ancestral land rights. The Penan groups, who live in Northern Sarawak, demand an exclusion zone exempting their lands from all logging.
Read the press release at borneoproject.org
And lastly, we highly recommend you watch the 1MDB documentary Man on The Run, which is now streaming on Netflix. Those implicated in the film are trying to get it taken down, so watch it while you still can!
In solidarity,
Jettie Word, Director
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