We have collected the most important news stories regarding forestry and indigenous issues in Borneo, with a particular focus on Sarawak. For other recent news on Borneo, be sure to check out the Rengah Sarawak and Forest Conservation Archives websites. Article titles with after them contain pictures. When an article covers more than one subject, it appears in more than one category section.
More recent articles appear before older ones within each category.
Most articles are written by Borneo Project staffers, and can't be found anywhere else on the web. In addition, scientists say rising attacks by the sun bear,a normally shy and passive creature, are another indication that the natural balance of the Borneo's rainforest is skewed, after decades of logging. With the 1998 fall of President Suharto, a new breed of businessmen is on the rise, and they are bending the local government to their will as efficiently as any Colombian drug cartel. Yet their business isn't cocaine or heroin. It is the illegal and unregulated logging of Asia's last great rainforests.