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updated 2001-01-31
Individual action
Send a letter to the Samling Co.
The situation of the Penan peoples is now very critical. Your voice is essential to show that there is international concern for the tribal peoples of Sarawak and for the destruction of their forest home.
The following letter was signed by over 25 international invironmental NGO's (see list below) at the meeting of the European-Forest-Movement sent to Samling Group of Companies
Please write a similar letter to the Directors of Samling Co. Write in your own words (and in your own language if you like) and make the following points or just copy our letter - thank you very much!
Datuk Yaw Teck Seng and Yaw Chee Ming
Samling Strategic Corporation Sdn Bhd
Wisma Samling
Lot 296
Jalan Temengong Datuk Oyong
Lawa Yau
PO Box 368
98007 Miri
Sarawak, Malaysia
Fax: 0060-85-412 821
19th April, 1999
Samling Group of Companies: Stop Human Rights Violations.
Dear Datuk Yaw Teck Seng and Yaw Chee Ming
The signing organisations, having attended an international meeting last week, ask you as the owners of Samling Group of companies to:
- Immediately stop road construction and logging in all Penan areas in Ulu Limbang and Ulu Baram Sarawak, where the Penan hold traditional land rights, as has been requested by the Penan for many years.
- Clearly refrain from entering and logging in remaining virgin forests.
- Implement sustainable forestry in all other areas with the consent of, and in co-operation with, the indigenous peoples and local populations affected.
- Relocate the FOMISS project to a secondary forest area and to recognise the indigenous peoples' land rights in the company's logging concession currently covered by the FOMISS project.
Relocating the FOMISS project area and immediately implementing the points above could be considered as progress by Samling Group companies in the achievement of sustainable forest management in the area concerned.
The immediate implementation of the above is crucial to facilitate access for Samling's timber products in our respective country timber markets.
We look forward to your rapid response.
Yours sincerely
Bruno-Manser-Fonds, Switzerland
Pro Regenwald, Germany
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Regenwald und Artenschutz (ARA), Germany
Caledonia Reborn/Reforest Scotland, Scotland
Centre International D'appui au Developpement Durable, Cameroon
EarthLink, Germany
FERN, Belgium
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), United Kingdom
Forests Monitor, United Kingdom
Friends of the Earth, England, Wales, Northern Ireland
Friends of the Earth, Finland
Global Witness, United Kingdom
Green Earth Organization, Ghana
Greenpeace Germany, Germany
Greenpeace International, Netherlands
milieudefensie (FOE-Netherlands), Netherlands
Planet Survey, Cameroon
Pro REGENWALD, Germany
Rainforest Action Network (RAN), USA
Rettet den Regenwald, Germany
Robin de Bois, France
Robin Wood, Germany
Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, Sweden
Trees Canada, Canada
Urgewald, Germany
Borchert Nanna, Consultant - Sweden
Hewitt James, Consultant - United Kingdom
Wakker Eric, Consultant - Netherlands
cc: GTZ, World Bank, Governmental bodies, Press