Sarawak: Borneo Tribes Under Threat From Massive Palm Oil Expansion

Sarawak: Borneo Tribes Under Threat From Massive Palm Oil Expansion   The hunter-gatherer Penan and other tribes are under threat from new plans to expand palm oil plantations massively in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.   The Sarawak government has announced plans to double the area used for palm oil by 2020, using indigenous land which it says is ‘mostly under-utilized and without titles’.   Logging companies have destroyed much of the rainforest the Penan rely on. They and other tribes are...

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