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BAKELALAN: The gravel logging road from here to Lawas town has not been expanded and sealed although Indonesia has built its all-weather sealed road from Nunukan to the border with Ba’kelalan at Long Midong. ....
I VISITED North Kalimantan two months ago, with Tarakan as one of the stops. As our boat approached the Tarakan jetty, I noticed a vast construction site, initially thinking it might be the long-awaited bridge connecting the mainland.
However, my local friend informed me that it was, in fact, a l ....
Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be 'very, very bad' mongabay.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mongabay.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Indigenous peoples from the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo are hopeful their objections to logging by Samling Group – covering an area of forest roughly equivalent to the size of Luxembourg – are finally being taken seriously after the country’s timber certification board ordered dispute mediation a year after they first complained about the plan. The Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC) took action following complaints by 36 Indigenous Penan, Kenyah and Jamok communities from Sarawak’s Upper Limbang and Baram regions about alleged flaws in its certification of two logging concessions. The dispute relates to two logging concessions in two Forest Management Units (FMUs): the 148,305-hectare (366,469-acre) Gerenai FMU, located in Upper Baram and the 117,941-hectare (292,438-acre) Ravenscourt FMU located in Upper Limbang. ....