The Borneo Project

The Borneo Project For over thirty years, helping Borneo's rainforest communities protect their lands.

The Borneo Project brings international attention and support to community-led efforts to defend forests, sustainable livelihoods, and human rights. Protecting human rights and environmental integrity in Borneo is a critical component of the global movement for a just and peaceful world. In the late 1980s, indigenous communities in Malaysian Borneo made world headlines when they staged a series of

blockades in resistance to logging companies who were illegally encroaching on their lands. International observers– including The Borneo Project’s founder Joe Lamb– came to bear witness to the gassing and mass arrest of protestors. Upon his return to America in 1991, Joe founded The Borneo Project with the immediate goal of providing support to those fighting to protect their rights and the critically important rainforests of Sarawak. Since its founding the project has trained dozens of indigenous activists in community mapping, enabling over 100 communities to map areas of ancestral land claims and win legal cases and negotiations. We have supported paralegal education and mobile legal aid clinics that have helped over 200 longhouse communities hold off destructive logging and industrial plantations. The Project has coordinated over $500,000 in grants from international sources for community reforestation, organic gardening, territory demarcation, indigenous education, and other village projects.

No consent. No entry. No logging. Read the full story at the link in our bio.
05/23/2026

No consent. No entry. No logging.

Read the full story at the link in our bio.

In Penang, conservationists and residents are collaborating to reduce conflict between humans and endangered dusky langu...
05/21/2026

In Penang, conservationists and residents are collaborating to reduce conflict between humans and endangered dusky langurs displaced by urban development and habitat loss.

In Malaysia’s Penang state, conservationists and residents are collaborating to reduce conflict between humans and endangered dusky langurs displaced by urban development and habitat loss. The Langur Project Penang built a canopy bridge to help langurs safely cross a busy road and access more habi...

No consent. No entry. No logging.Read the full story at the link in our bio.
05/21/2026

No consent. No entry. No logging.

Read the full story at the link in our bio.

05/19/2026

While the Sarawak government touts a “Beyond Timber” policy, the forests in Upper Baram continue to fall. Communities are standing strong, uniting against forest destruction.

📢 Their message is clear: no consent, no entry, no logging.

Joint press release with




We join the call to temporarily suspend Sirim QAS International Sdn Bhd as a notified certification body for Malaysia’s ...
05/18/2026

We join the call to temporarily suspend Sirim QAS International Sdn Bhd as a notified certification body for Malaysia’s timber industry.

Report shows potentially controversial auditing practices, says environmental watchdog.

While the Sarawak government touts a "Beyond Timber" policy, the forests in Upper Baram continue to fall. Communities ar...
05/18/2026

While the Sarawak government touts a "Beyond Timber" policy, the forests in Upper Baram continue to fall. Communities are standing strong, uniting against forest destruction.

📢 Their message is clear: no consent, no entry, no logging.

Malaysian Timber Certification Council Forest Department Sarawak Anwar Ibrahim

Communities in the Upper Baram region of Sarawak, Malaysia have issued a strong and unified statement opposing any logging on their ancestral lands.

Environmental watchdog RimbaWatch has called for Sirim QAS International to be suspended as the certification body for M...
05/18/2026

Environmental watchdog RimbaWatch has called for Sirim QAS International to be suspended as the certification body for Malaysia’s timber certification scheme, citing concerns over deforestation and Orang Asli land rights.

RimbaWatch alleges that Sirim QAS International's auditors fail to properly recognise Orang Asli land conflicts during certification audits.

On 4 May 2026, workers from SRS Makmur Sdn Bhd, accompanied by police, arrived at Kampung Sungai Baru, Pekan, Pahang, an...
05/14/2026

On 4 May 2026, workers from SRS Makmur Sdn Bhd, accompanied by police, arrived at Kampung Sungai Baru, Pekan, Pahang, and demolished homes belonging to the Jakun Orang Asli community using backhoes and heavy machinery. No notice whatsoever was given. No consent was sought. No court order was produced.

via Greenpeace Malaysia

Seven of the settlement’s 21 homes were destroyed, including the Rumah Adat the community hall used for weddings, funerals, gatherings and meetings  and, of the six residential homes demolished, one belonged to an OKU (person with disabilities). Approximately 60 to 70 people live in this settleme...

Over time, as climate change, biodiversity loss and habitat destruction became harder to ignore, Attenborough's films to...
05/08/2026

Over time, as climate change, biodiversity loss and habitat destruction became harder to ignore, Attenborough's films took on a more somber purpose.

His lasting message is that understanding nature is not just a matter of curiosity; it is the beginning of responsibility.

As his 100th birthday approaches, David Attenborough occupies an unusual place in public life: not a practicing scientist, not quite a conventional journalist, and no longer only a broadcaster. His voice, familiar from decades of natural history programming, has become one of the most recognizable w...

05/08/2026

A picture tells a thousand words. Taps at longhouses and in Tatau town ran dry for two days, and then this is what came out. The palm oil company Quality Avenue claims the water is fine and denies any wrongdoing. It’s time for to hold them accountable.

Read our full report on the Sungai Sap case on our website.

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