27/08/2026
What Happened to the Baram Peace Park?
A new report by Bruno Manser Fonds reveals how the vision to protect the forests of Upper Baram was undermined, while logging has returned to the area.
For years, Indigenous communities have fought to protect their ancestral forests. This led to the Baram Peace Park, which was later adopted by the Malaysian government and the International Tropical Timber Organization as the Upper Baram Forest Area (UBFA).
But in 2024, Borneoland Timber Resources was given a logging concession covering more than 100,000 hectares of the proposed conservation area.
The report raises serious questions about how the concession was approved, the lack of transparency, and whether affected communities gave their Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).
Today, logging is expanding into forests that communities believed would be protected.
Read the full report to learn what happened to the Baram Peace Park and why Indigenous communities are still fighting to protect their forests.
Read the report: https://www.savebaramforest.org/en/report/
https://saverivers.org/2026/08/27/new-report-exposes-how-an-indigenous-conservation-initiative-was-undermined-as-logging-returned-to-sarawaks-upper-baram/
For decades, indigenous communities in the Upper Baram region of Malaysian Borneo have been fighting deforestation and, through their sustained efforts, have successfully protected large areas of forest. These efforts gave rise to the vision of the Baram Peace Park, which was later formalized by the...
