Indigenous Dayak, blockade of logging road, tropical rainforest

1991: Kenyah native people. Lun wearing traditional brass earrings with many children, at a blockade protest site across a logging road. In 1991/2, the Long Geng and Long Lewan communities made a continuous human blockade for two years, rotating people every two weeks, blocking logging in their traditional lands. Belaga district, Sarawak, Borneo

Tropical rainforest and 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. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.

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1991: Kenyah native people. Lun wearing traditional brass earrings with many children, at a blockade protest site across a logging road. In 1991/2, the Long Geng and Long Lewan communities made a continuous human blockade for two years, rotating people every two weeks, blocking logging in their traditional lands. Belaga district, Sarawak, Borneo<br />
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Tropical rainforest and 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. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.