Sarawak: Borneo Revisited extras 2012-2015
60 images Created 9 Jul 2015
MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia. Penan and Kenyah Dayaks try to save the last of their native lands, which are being destroyed by logging, palm oil plantations and hydroelectric dams.
This Tropical rainforest is one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Also other Dayak native indigenous peoples including Kelabit and Kenyah peoples. They are traditional and religious, animists, Christians, still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants.
Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
This Tropical rainforest is one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Also other Dayak native indigenous peoples including Kelabit and Kenyah peoples. They are traditional and religious, animists, Christians, still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants.
Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
