Penan tribe protests to save land
Apr 22, 07 6:59pm
A struggling tribe in rural Malaysia has set up blockades in a desperate attempt to protect its ancestral land on Borneo from logging.
The Penan tribe in Sarawak state have used tree branches and wooden poles to build the blockades in what they say is a bid to save forests from being completely wiped out.
"If we do not defend our rights today, after logging ends our forests will be set to be destroyed by plantation schemes," the chairman of the Sarawak Penan Association, Ajang Kiew, said in a statement.
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/66288
No comments:
Post a Comment