2019/52, 18 June 2019
Malaysia’s year-old Pakatan Harapan (PH) government has made the headlines for environmental progress. The quick arrest of those behind toxic contamination at Sungai Kim-Kim, the highly publicised rejection of container-loads of plastic waste, and declarations of poachers to be shot on sight were met with praise. But what of the severe forest clearing that affects Pensinsular Malaysia’s indigenous people?
“Land is Life: When Protecting Forests means Saving Malaysia’s Original Peoples” by Serina Rahman