The news archive until 2019 is currently located on the old webpage of the Bruno Manser Fonds.
The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) officially endorses the Baram Peace Park/Upper Baram Forest Area to protect the forest and support community livelihoods in Sarawak — at the same time, the timber company Samling continues to log the area.
While communities continue to express concern about certificates granted under the Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme, a petition with 6,629 signatures from around the world now calls on the international certification body PEFC to step in.
Furniture giant refuses to provide precise information on the origin of wood from high-risk countries
Investigation commissioned by IKEA found no evidence of illegal wood in its supply chain
Penan communities from the Limbang area only learnt about the issuance of a timber certificate affecting their area two years after the fact – they now demand respect of Free, Prior and Informed Consent
Failure to comply with Swiss consumer laws indicates furniture giant's problem with its supply chains in Eastern Europe
The Bruno Manser Fund (BMF) talked to Kinari Webb, physician and founder of Health in Harmony, about how environmental destruction affects human health and allows for diseases like COVID-19 to spread.
Organizers called on to learn from & fix procurement failures linked to rainforest destruction in light of the Olympics postponement
Oil palm and timber companies received permits to continue work in Sarawak despite national lockdown – indigenous leaders criticise the government’s decision
Major Swiss movie production honours missing rainforest advocate Bruno Manser.
Indigenous Penan and Berawan communities file lawsuit against palm oil development destroying rainforests near the UNESCO-protected Gunung Mulu National Park
A planned mega ski resort in the Ukrainian Carpathians threatens some of Europe’s last primeval beech forests.