The Borneo Project

08/28/2026

More than 100'000 ha of a proposed conservation area were quietly handed over for industrial logging.

There was..... no transparency.. no public announcement.. no Free, Prior, and Informed Consent.

Read the full report now: www.bmf.ch

08/28/2026

Lebih 100,000 hektar kawasan pemuliharaan yang dicadangkan telah diserahkan secara senyap untuk pembalakan industry.

Tiada ketelusan.
Tiada pengumuman awam.
Tiada Persetujuan Bebas, Awal dan Dimaklumkan.

Baca laporan: www.savebaramforest.org

08/24/2026

In the early 1990s, the logging roads running through Sarawak’s Upper Baram became the site of a bitter confrontation. Penan families built wooden barricades and faced off bulldozers, timber trucks, and state security forces. As the protests drew international attention, the government of Chief Mi...

08/24/2026

What if a conservation project becomes a logging project?
This is exactly what happenend in Sarawak, Malaysia.

Our new report reveals how the Sarawak government and the ITTO buried an Indigenous conservation initiative in Malaysian Borneo and let a major logging operation take its place.

Find out more - download the report: https://buff.ly/kUkR3xT

08/14/2026

Always a bummer returning to the land of oil palm after being in Upper Baram where the forests tower overhead. There is still so much worth saving.

08/14/2026

To mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Mongabay interviewed nine Indigenous representatives from around the world to discuss what biodiversity conservation and climate solutions actually look like on the ground.

From community-led river management in Malaysia to ancestral agroforestry in the Amazon, Indigenous leaders highlighted strategies that are delivering real results.

However, they also pointed out why many top-down conservation models fail: a lack of direct community consultation, overly bureaucratic funding, and a disregard for local realities and cultural nuances.

Read the full interviews to learn how traditional and local knowledge can build lasting environmental solutions.

👉 https://mongabay.cc/CwAxoj

07/28/2026

"The future of Upper Baram is no longer an abstract debate about development versus conservation. It is a real and ongoing conflict involving Indigenous communities, logging interests, and government authorities responsible for managing Sarawak’s forests."

by Peter Kallang The future of Upper Baram is no longer an abstract debate about development versus conservation. It is a real and ongoing conflict involving Indigenous communities, logging interes…

07/20/2026

“Indigenous land rights, forest protection, and corporate accountability are closely connected. When communities cannot secure land recognition, companies can obtain concessions over territories where people live, farm, worship, gather forest products, and maintain cultural life. When certification, regulation, and buyers fail, communities bear the costs.”

On paper, the land around the Indigenous Rumah Jeffery community was covered by company concessions. For the Iban families who live there, it was home.

07/20/2026

From SAVE Rivers Chairman Peter N. J. Kallang:

By DayakDaily Team KUCHING, July 20: The way to end the long-running timber conflict in Upper Baram is not through more logging, but by recognising Indigenous rights, ensuring genuine consent and s…

07/16/2026

💚 From our founder, Joe:

"Ten years ago, at the gathering that would help save the Baram River, the legendary Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres told me that she knew our campaign was going to win. She knew, she said, because the river told her. Five months later she was assassinated in Honduras for defending her own forest. But she was right about the Baram. We won. And I've carried her words with me ever since, because I know we can win again. Our collective refusal to relinquish hope is what makes this work possible."

Thanks to our incredible community, we’re already halfway to our fundraising goal for our mid-year appeal. With a matching grant of $40,000 in place, all donations between now and the end of the month are doubled.

Head to borneoproject.org and click donate to find all the different ways to give. 🙏

In October 2015, Indigenous activists from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Brazil, the United States, and Honduras, together with delegates from longhouse communities throughout the Malaysian state of Sarawak, gathered at Tanjung Tepalit, an Indigenous Kenyah village on the Baram Riv...