The Penan are campaigning for a UNESCO biosphere reserve in the Magoh region of the Malaysian state of Sarawak. With they biosphere, they want to protect their forests from defore…
Svydovets, one of the most pristine forest landscapes in Europe, is to be destroyed by a large network of ski resorts. The mountain massif in the Ukrainian Carpathian Forest is ho…
Palm oil, soya, cocoa etc. are also imported into Switzerland if rainforests have been destroyed to grow them and are found in chocolate, paper and detergents. This petition aims…
The last primary, old-growth and other high conservation forests of Europe are in danger. In Romania, the furniture giant resorts to intensive commercial logging and destructive p…
After decades of deforestation, the Indigenous Peoples of Sarawak (Malaysia) take stock and ask: Our forest is gone - where is the money?
Together with the Bruno Manser Fonds, the Penan came up with the idea of a rainforest park in the north of Sarawak in 2009. The idea has been taken further since then, with the ne…
Journalists and civil society are increasingly under pressure: freedom of press and freedom of expression are being questioned by potentates, oligarchs and the corporate world who…
Sarawak's aggressive logging policy has drastically reduced the rainforests. Now, the logging companies and the government are promoting the PEFC timber sustainability label. The…
The Pan Borneo Highway is to cross the last intact rainforests in Sarawak’s interior and threatens the last semi-nomadic Penan. The Bruno Manser Fund supports the affected Penan w…
Oil palm plantations are spreading in Malaysia at an incredible rate at the expense of the rainforest! This is contrary to the Malaysian government's promise to curb rainforest de…
Trade in tropical timber has been a very lucrative business for Sarawak for more than thirty years and also one that is susceptible to corruption. Very few key individuals control…
PT Borneo Prima is exploiting coal deposits in the heart of Borneo at the expense of the rainforest and against the resistance of the indigenous people. The Zug-based commodities…
In 2008, it emerged that the Sarawak government was intending to build a series of twelve dams in the rainforest. Thanks to the untiring campaigning of the Bruno Manser Fund and i…
