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  • Woman standing on pavement in street, in conversation on mobile telephone. Beijing, China
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  • August 2012: Penan native hunters with deer shot with blowpipe, the body was preserved in cold river water overnight and collected by the family the next day. Near Long Gita, Limbang district, Sarawak, Borneo<br />
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The sound of chainsaws is not too distant, oil palm plantations are looming and the pipeline is right next door. What will the future hold for them? Long Adang and Long Gita, Limbang Sarawak, Borneo..The huge Petronas Sabah-Sarawak pipeline is being built across the Borneo rainforest through native areas. Petronas is the government cash cow which funds about 45% of its budget. New roads are being built, though much of the transport follows the existing roads and infrastructure created by logging. Whilst the government heralds the project as a source of jobs for local people, it is unlikely to bring much but wanton damage to rainforest habitat and paving the way for further deforestation by oil palm plantations.Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region...
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  • Berkley. Elizabeth Hamman, university of Florida, and Julie Zill, posy BAC researcher, looking at efects of coral damage and how spacing of corals effects the damage caused by snails. Research into repairing Coral Reefs, Berkley, Moorea island, French Polynesia<br />
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Un nouveau regard sur la Polynesie Francaise. Dynamisation, collaborations, innovation, developpment resources, economie, entreprises et organismes polyesiennes, endemisme terrestre et marin, biodiversite, biomolecules, biotechnologies, endemisme terrestre et marin, energies renouvelables, preservation durables, climat tropical, alternatives a l'utilisation de produits chimiques, transformation agroalimentaires, usages traditionnels des plantes, utilisation des plantes endemiques en cosmetique et en medecine, aquaculture performante et durable, valorisation des dechets, outre mer et la zone pacifique, technologies innovantes, synergies, culture, traditions, technologique et scientifique, collaborations, stimulation, production et realization, protection, transformation, diversite, pharmocopee, experimentation, autonomie, espace naturels et eco-tourisme,
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  • Berkley. Elizabeth Hamman, university of Florida, and Julie Zill, posy BAC researcher, looking at efects of coral damage and how spacing of corals effects the damage caused by snails. Research into repairing Coral Reefs, Berkley, Moorea island, French Polynesia<br />
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Un nouveau regard sur la Polynesie Francaise. Dynamisation, collaborations, innovation, developpment resources, economie, entreprises et organismes polyesiennes, endemisme terrestre et marin, biodiversite, biomolecules, biotechnologies, endemisme terrestre et marin, energies renouvelables, preservation durables, climat tropical, alternatives a l'utilisation de produits chimiques, transformation agroalimentaires, usages traditionnels des plantes, utilisation des plantes endemiques en cosmetique et en medecine, aquaculture performante et durable, valorisation des dechets, outre mer et la zone pacifique, technologies innovantes, synergies, culture, traditions, technologique et scientifique, collaborations, stimulation, production et realization, protection, transformation, diversite, pharmocopee, experimentation, autonomie, espace naturels et eco-tourisme,
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  • Berkley. Elizabeth Hamman, university of Florida, and Julie Zill, posy BAC researcher, looking at efects of coral damage and how spacing of corals effects the damage caused by snails. Research into repairing Coral Reefs, Berkley, Moorea island, French Polynesia<br />
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Un nouveau regard sur la Polynesie Francaise. Dynamisation, collaborations, innovation, developpment resources, economie, entreprises et organismes polyesiennes, endemisme terrestre et marin, biodiversite, biomolecules, biotechnologies, endemisme terrestre et marin, energies renouvelables, preservation durables, climat tropical, alternatives a l'utilisation de produits chimiques, transformation agroalimentaires, usages traditionnels des plantes, utilisation des plantes endemiques en cosmetique et en medecine, aquaculture performante et durable, valorisation des dechets, outre mer et la zone pacifique, technologies innovantes, synergies, culture, traditions, technologique et scientifique, collaborations, stimulation, production et realization, protection, transformation, diversite, pharmocopee, experimentation, autonomie, espace naturels et eco-tourisme,
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  • August 2012: Energy pipelines are built for Malaysia's cash cow Petronas, whose presence ravages the beauty of the tropical rainforest. Near Long Seboyan, Limbang district, Sarawak, Borneo  <br />
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The huge Petronas Sabah-Sarawak pipeline is being built across the Borneo rainforest through native areas. Petronas is the government cash cow which funds about 45% of its budget. New roads are being built, though much of the transport follows the existing roads and infrastructure created by logging. Whilst the government heralds the project as a source of jobs for local people, it is unlikely to bring much but wanton damage to rainforest habitat and paving the way for further deforestation by oil palm plantations. Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage
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  • August 2012: Penan native, Baru, now sedentary. Living in a wood house, traditional native Dayak structure, but not anymore the Penan sulap as he did two decades ago. This is his last home, he will not be able to move again. there is not enough forest left for him and his community. Long Gita, Belaga district, Sarawak, Borneo<br />
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The sound of chainsaws is not too distant, oil palm plantations are looming and the pipeline is right next door. Long Adang and Long Gita, Limbang Sarawak, Borneo..The huge Petronas Sabah-Sarawak pipeline is being built across the Borneo rainforest through native areas. Petronas is the government cash cow which funds about 45% of its budget. New roads are being built, though much of the transport follows the existing roads and infrastructure created by logging. Whilst the government heralds the project as a source of jobs for local people, it is unlikely to bring much but wanton damage to rainforest habitat and paving the way for further deforestation by oil palm plantations. Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region..
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  • August 2012: Settled Penan, Baru and Menit, formerly nomadic, but still living a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, deep in the rainforest near the Kalimantan border. Forced to leave their traditional hunting grounds as they have been logged and destroyed. Limbang district, Sarawak, Borneo<br />
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The sound of chainsaws is not too distant, oil palm plantations are looming and the pipeline is right next door. Long Adang and Long Gita, Limbang Sarawak, Borneo. New roads are being built, though much of the transport follows the existing roads and infrastructure created by logging. Whilst the government heralds the project as a source of jobs for local people, it is unlikely to bring much but wanton damage to rainforest habitat and paving the way for further deforestation by oil palm plantations. Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region...
    134_borneo_1F2C1944.JPG
  • Berkley. Elizabeth Hamman, university of Florida, and Julie Zill, posy BAC researcher, looking at efects of coral damage and how spacing of corals effects the damage caused by snails. Research into repairing Coral Reefs, Berkley, Moorea island, French Polynesia<br />
<br />
Un nouveau regard sur la Polynesie Francaise. Dynamisation, collaborations, innovation, developpment resources, economie, entreprises et organismes polyesiennes, endemisme terrestre et marin, biodiversite, biomolecules, biotechnologies, endemisme terrestre et marin, energies renouvelables, preservation durables, climat tropical, alternatives a l'utilisation de produits chimiques, transformation agroalimentaires, usages traditionnels des plantes, utilisation des plantes endemiques en cosmetique et en medecine, aquaculture performante et durable, valorisation des dechets, outre mer et la zone pacifique, technologies innovantes, synergies, culture, traditions, technologique et scientifique, collaborations, stimulation, production et realization, protection, transformation, diversite, pharmocopee, experimentation, autonomie, espace naturels et eco-tourisme,
    tahiti_french_polynesia_084.JPG
  • Berkley. Elizabeth Hamman, university of Florida, and Julie Zill, posy BAC researcher, looking at efects of coral damage and how spacing of corals effects the damage caused by snails. Research into repairing Coral Reefs, Berkley, Moorea island, French Polynesia<br />
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Un nouveau regard sur la Polynesie Francaise. Dynamisation, collaborations, innovation, developpment resources, economie, entreprises et organismes polyesiennes, endemisme terrestre et marin, biodiversite, biomolecules, biotechnologies, endemisme terrestre et marin, energies renouvelables, preservation durables, climat tropical, alternatives a l'utilisation de produits chimiques, transformation agroalimentaires, usages traditionnels des plantes, utilisation des plantes endemiques en cosmetique et en medecine, aquaculture performante et durable, valorisation des dechets, outre mer et la zone pacifique, technologies innovantes, synergies, culture, traditions, technologique et scientifique, collaborations, stimulation, production et realization, protection, transformation, diversite, pharmocopee, experimentation, autonomie, espace naturels et eco-tourisme,
    tahiti_french_polynesia_082.JPG
  • Berkley. Elizabeth Hamman, university of Florida, and Julie Zill, posy BAC researcher, looking at efects of coral damage and how spacing of corals effects the damage caused by snails. Research into repairing Coral Reefs, Berkley, Moorea island, French Polynesia<br />
<br />
Un nouveau regard sur la Polynesie Francaise. Dynamisation, collaborations, innovation, developpment resources, economie, entreprises et organismes polyesiennes, endemisme terrestre et marin, biodiversite, biomolecules, biotechnologies, endemisme terrestre et marin, energies renouvelables, preservation durables, climat tropical, alternatives a l'utilisation de produits chimiques, transformation agroalimentaires, usages traditionnels des plantes, utilisation des plantes endemiques en cosmetique et en medecine, aquaculture performante et durable, valorisation des dechets, outre mer et la zone pacifique, technologies innovantes, synergies, culture, traditions, technologique et scientifique, collaborations, stimulation, production et realization, protection, transformation, diversite, pharmocopee, experimentation, autonomie, espace naturels et eco-tourisme,
    tahiti_french_polynesia_081.JPG
  • Berkley. Elizabeth Hamman, university of Florida, and Julie Zill, posy BAC researcher, looking at efects of coral damage and how spacing of corals effects the damage caused by snails. Research into repairing Coral Reefs, Berkley, Moorea island, French Polynesia<br />
<br />
Un nouveau regard sur la Polynesie Francaise. Dynamisation, collaborations, innovation, developpment resources, economie, entreprises et organismes polyesiennes, endemisme terrestre et marin, biodiversite, biomolecules, biotechnologies, endemisme terrestre et marin, energies renouvelables, preservation durables, climat tropical, alternatives a l'utilisation de produits chimiques, transformation agroalimentaires, usages traditionnels des plantes, utilisation des plantes endemiques en cosmetique et en medecine, aquaculture performante et durable, valorisation des dechets, outre mer et la zone pacifique, technologies innovantes, synergies, culture, traditions, technologique et scientifique, collaborations, stimulation, production et realization, protection, transformation, diversite, pharmocopee, experimentation, autonomie, espace naturels et eco-tourisme,
    tahiti_french_polynesia_080.JPG
  • Berkley. Elizabeth Hamman, university of Florida, and Julie Zill, posy BAC researcher, looking at efects of coral damage and how spacing of corals effects the damage caused by snails. Research into repairing Coral Reefs, Berkley, Moorea island, French Polynesia<br />
<br />
Un nouveau regard sur la Polynesie Francaise. Dynamisation, collaborations, innovation, developpment resources, economie, entreprises et organismes polyesiennes, endemisme terrestre et marin, biodiversite, biomolecules, biotechnologies, endemisme terrestre et marin, energies renouvelables, preservation durables, climat tropical, alternatives a l'utilisation de produits chimiques, transformation agroalimentaires, usages traditionnels des plantes, utilisation des plantes endemiques en cosmetique et en medecine, aquaculture performante et durable, valorisation des dechets, outre mer et la zone pacifique, technologies innovantes, synergies, culture, traditions, technologique et scientifique, collaborations, stimulation, production et realization, protection, transformation, diversite, pharmocopee, experimentation, autonomie, espace naturels et eco-tourisme,
    tahiti_french_polynesia_079.JPG
  • Baru's family at Long Gita. Penan indigenous native people, nomadic decades ago, have been forced to move up-river, to settled accomodation, far from their original hunter-gatherer grounds. The sound of chainsaws is not too distant, oil palm plantations are looming and the pipeline is right next door. What will the future hold for them? Long Adang and Long Gita, Limbang Sarawak, Borneo..The huge Petronas Sabah-Sarawak pipeline is being built across the Borneo rainforest through native areas. Petronas is the government cash cow which funds about 45% of its budget. New roads are being built, though much of the transport follows the existing roads and infrastructure created by logging. Whilst the government heralds the project as a source of jobs for local people, it is unlikely to bring much but wanton damage to rainforest habitat and paving the way for further deforestation by oil palm plantations. ..Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991-2012. ..Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region...
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  • Primary rainforest. Penan indigenous native people, nomadic decades ago, have been forced to move up-river, to settled accomodation, far from their original hunter-gatherer grounds. The sound of chainsaws is not too distant, oil palm plantations are looming and the pipeline is right next door. What will the future hold for them? Long Adang and Long Gita, Limbang Sarawak, Borneo..The huge Petronas Sabah-Sarawak pipeline is being built across the Borneo rainforest through native areas. Petronas is the government cash cow which funds about 45% of its budget. New roads are being built, though much of the transport follows the existing roads and infrastructure created by logging. Whilst the government heralds the project as a source of jobs for local people, it is unlikely to bring much but wanton damage to rainforest habitat and paving the way for further deforestation by oil palm plantations. ..Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991-2012. ..Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region...
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  • Ground level view across thousands of hectares of palm oil plantations. This was originally unspoilt primary rainforest. Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
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These regions were were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
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Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
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Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Ground level view across thousands of hectares of palm oil plantations. This was originally unspoilt primary rainforest. Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
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These regions were were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region
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  • The family of Along Saga, a hard fighting resistance fighter who died a decade before. The Penan native people are learning to live a sedentary lifestyle which includes living in wooden houses, farming and fishing. They were traditionally nomadic hunter-gatherers. These days they have become forcibly settled as their hunting grounds have been largely destroyed by logging concessions and palm-oil plantations. Limbang Sarawak Malaysia 2015<br />
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There are only a few, difficult to find, scarce communities of semi-nomadic Penan nowadays, who live like of those of old, hidden away deep in the tropical forest, hunter-gathering, wearing loin cloth ‘chawats’, hunting wild boar with blowpipes and poison arrows, and extracting sago-root flour, their staple carbohydrate, by hand.<br />
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Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Roma Gypsies in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania. A wall divides two communities from each other. The non-Roma live in the blocks of apartments whilst on the other side of the wall live the Roma Gypsies, in little houses. The Municipality says the wall is there to protect property and cars from damage by Roma. The non-Roma are annoyed because they say they cannot sell their apartments for a good price, so they are forced to stay where they are. Sfantu Gheorghe Romania.
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  • Roma Gypsies in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania. A wall divides two communities from each other. The non-Roma live in the blocks of apartments whilst on the other side of the wall live the Roma Gypsies, in little houses. The Municipality says the wall is there to protect property and cars from damage by Roma. The non-Roma are annoyed because they say they cannot sell their apartments for a good price, so they are forced to stay where they are. Sfantu Gheorghe Romania.
    009romania_IMG_9130.JPG
  • Roma Gypsies in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania. A wall divides two communities from each other. The non-Roma live in the blocks of apartments whilst on the other side of the wall live the Roma Gypsies, in little houses. The Municipality says the wall is there to protect property and cars from damage by Roma. The non-Roma are annoyed because they say they cannot sell their apartments for a good price, so they are forced to stay where they are. Sfantu Gheorghe Romania.
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  • Roma Gypsies in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania. A wall divides two communities from each other. The non-Roma live in the blocks of apartments whilst on the other side of the wall live the Roma Gypsies, in little houses. The Municipality says the wall is there to protect property and cars from damage by Roma. The non-Roma are annoyed because they say they cannot sell their apartments for a good price, so they are forced to stay where they are. Sfantu Gheorghe Romania.
    007romania_IMG_9028.JPG
  • Roma Gypsies in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania. A wall divides two communities from each other. The non-Roma live in the blocks of apartments whilst on the other side of the wall live the Roma Gypsies, in little houses. The Municipality says the wall is there to protect property and cars from damage by Roma. The non-Roma are annoyed because they say they cannot sell their apartments for a good price, so they are forced to stay where they are. Sfantu Gheorghe Romania.
    006romania_IMG_9024.JPG
  • Roma Gypsies in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania. A wall divides two communities from each other. The non-Roma live in the blocks of apartments whilst on the other side of the wall live the Roma Gypsies, in little houses. The Municipality says the wall is there to protect property and cars from damage by Roma. The non-Roma are annoyed because they say they cannot sell their apartments for a good price, so they are forced to stay where they are. Sfantu Gheorghe Romania.
    005romania_IMG_8997.JPG
  • Roma Gypsies in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania. A wall divides two communities from each other. The non-Roma live in the blocks of apartments whilst on the other side of the wall live the Roma Gypsies, in little houses. The Municipality says the wall is there to protect property and cars from damage by Roma. The non-Roma are annoyed because they say they cannot sell their apartments for a good price, so they are forced to stay where they are. Sfantu Gheorghe Romania.
    002romania_IMG_8966.JPG
  • Roma Gypsies in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania. A wall divides two communities from each other. The non-Roma live in the blocks of apartments whilst on the other side of the wall live the Roma Gypsies, in little houses. The Municipality says the wall is there to protect property and cars from damage by Roma. The non-Roma are annoyed because they say they cannot sell their apartments for a good price, so they are forced to stay where they are. Sfantu Gheorghe Romania.
    001romania_IMG_8962.JPG
  • August 2012: Kelabit Native family household, who have Penan neighbours. The writing is on the wall when they hang up Penan blowpipes and other traditional native paraphenalia, on their lounge wall. Decades ago these blowpipes would have been used for hunting, even by the Kelabit natives. Long Napir, Limbang district, Sarawak, Borneo<br />
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Kelabit native people facing threats to lose their traditional lands, ancestral burial grounds, culture and habitat, once a hydro-electric dam project floods their lands. The Limbang valley including Long Napir, a cluster of four settlements of Penan and Kelabit people, is threatened by a new hydro-electric project which will flood the entire area, displacing thousands of native people. The Murum Hydro-electric project already underway affecting the Rejang region, will displace over 24,000 Dayak native residents, destroying their longhouses and forest habitat. The dam site is located on the Murum River, in the uppermost part of the Rajang River basin, 200 km from Bintulu. Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region.
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  • Roma Gypsies in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania. A wall divides two communities from each other. The non-Roma live in the blocks of apartments whilst on the other side of the wall live the Roma Gypsies, in little houses. The Municipality says the wall is there to protect property and cars from damage by Roma. The non-Roma are annoyed because they say they cannot sell their apartments for a good price, so they are forced to stay where they are. Sfantu Gheorghe Romania.
    011romania_IMG_9203.JPG
  • Roma Gypsies in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania. A wall divides two communities from each other. The non-Roma live in the blocks of apartments whilst on the other side of the wall live the Roma Gypsies, in little houses. The Municipality says the wall is there to protect property and cars from damage by Roma. The non-Roma are annoyed because they say they cannot sell their apartments for a good price, so they are forced to stay where they are. Sfantu Gheorghe Romania.
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  • Roma Gypsies in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania. A wall divides two communities from each other. The non-Roma live in the blocks of apartments whilst on the other side of the wall live the Roma Gypsies, in little houses. The Municipality says the wall is there to protect property and cars from damage by Roma. The non-Roma are annoyed because they say they cannot sell their apartments for a good price, so they are forced to stay where they are. Sfantu Gheorghe Romania.
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  • Will the last person to leave the cabinet please turn out the lights. Evening Standard. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Bank. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Blockades against the Baram Dam have been a huge success, after years of campaigning and protest, the  Baram Dam in Sarawak has now been shelved. Night blockades. Baram Sarawak 2015<br />
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The first of 12 mega-dam projects, was the Bakun Dam, which produced a reservoir of 700 sqkm, the size of Singapore, whose flooding began in 2010 and displaced around 10,000 Kenyah people, in Rajang and Belaga. The second phase at Murum would displace a further 24,000 native people, and Baram some 30,000. This huge development program has been overseen by Sarawak's former Chief Minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud, who is now under investigation by Malaysian authorities for corruption, and who has amassed a personal fortune of more than 35 billion US dollars. <br />
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Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
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Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region
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  • Kelabit sedentary Dayaks, living in longhouses, rely on fishing, hunting and farming to survive. New style longhouse with aspirational lifestyle that comes with development. Limbang, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
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Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
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Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region
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  • Penan with headress. The Penan native people are learning to live a sedentary lifestyle which includes living in wooden houses, farming and fishing. They were traditionally nomadic hunter-gatherers. These days they have become forcibly settled as their hunting grounds have been largely destroyed by logging concessions and palm-oil plantations.<br />
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There are only a few, difficult to find, scarce communities of semi-nomadic Penan nowadays, who live like of those of old, hidden away deep in the tropical forest, hunter-gathering, wearing loin cloth ‘chawats’, hunting wild boar with blowpipes and poison arrows, and extracting sago-root flour, their staple carbohydrate, by hand.<br />
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Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region
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  • Twenty three years later: Penan natives, Baru standing with the brother of Banai Tebai. They lived twenty years ago in Long Tegan, but since the area was so thoroughly deforested, they moved upriver and now live in Long Gita. In a permanent traditional native design hardwood house on stilts. Limbang district, Sarawak, Borneo 2012<br />
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Nomadic decades ago, now settled, far from their original hunter-gatherer grounds.<br />
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The huge Petronas Sabah-Sarawak pipeline is being built across the Borneo rainforest through native areas. Petronas is the government cash cow which funds about 45% of its budget. New roads are being built, though much of the transport follows the existing roads and infrastructure created by logging. Whilst the government heralds the project as a source of jobs for local people, it is unlikely to bring much but wanton damage to rainforest habitat and paving the way for further deforestation by oil palm plantations. ..Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991-2012. ..Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done ir
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  • August 2012: Dayak hunters with motorbikes and shotguns get ready to go on a hunting spree. Belaga region, Sarawak, Borneo <br />
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Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region.
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  • NO Exit No Return<br />
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London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • TV, media and press outside Westminster. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Anti-Brexit Campaigners outside Westminster. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Anti-Brexit Campaigners outside Westminster. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Anti-Brexit Campaigners outside Westminster. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Anti-Brexit Campaigners outside Westminster. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Anti-Brexit Campaigners outside Westminster. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Anti-Brexit Campaigners outside Westminster. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Anti-Brexit Campaigners outside Westminster. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Anti-Brexit Campaigners outside Westminster. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Anti-Brexit Campaigners outside Westminster. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Anti-Brexit Campaigners outside Westminster. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Anti-Brexit Campaigners outside Westminster. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Anti-Brexit Campaigners outside Westminster. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Anti-Brexit Campaigners outside Westminster. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Sadiq Khan. Poster in Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC03838.jpg
  • Will the last person to leave the cabinet please turn out the lights . Evening Standard. Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC03810.jpg
  • Sadiq Khan. Poster in Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC03837.jpg
  • Smoking not smoking. Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Lyn Chadwick's 'Couple on a seat' and 'Two men on seats' by artist Giles Penny. Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Lyn Chadwick's 'Couple on a seat' and 'Two men on seats' by artist Giles Penny. Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC03801.jpg
  • Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC03773.jpg
  • Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC03771.jpg
  • Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01766.jpg
  • Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01755.jpg
  • Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01746.jpg
  • Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01736.jpg
  • Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01720.jpg
  • Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Canary Wharf. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Double decker bus. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Double decker bus. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Double decker bus. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Double decker bus. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01473.JPG
  • Bank. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01467.JPG
  • Bank. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01443.JPG
  • Bank. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01423.JPG
  • Bank. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01412.JPG
  • Bank. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01410.JPG
  • Bank. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01383.JPG
  • Bank. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01382.JPG
  • London Bridge. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01354.JPG
  • House of Fraser closing down sale central London. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01328.JPG
  • House of Fraser closing down sale central London. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01319.JPG
  • Bank. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01276.JPG
  • Bank. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01267.JPG
  • Bank. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01263.JPG
  • Bank. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01244.JPG
  • Bank. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
    BREXIT_BRITAIN_DSC01247.JPG
  • Bank. London was the only region in England that voted to remain in the EU referendum, but the British public as a whole voted to leave. Banking is just the tip of the iceberg with many other industries also making irrevocable decisions. The damage to the economy from Brexit is already afoot — so much so that the act of leaving the EU itself is, at this point, increasingly irrelevant. Businesses are closing, uncertainty reigns. Brexit is increasingly fraught with uncertainty after the UK's parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal many times.
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  • Nigel with old Penan friends. The Penan native people are learning to live a sedentary lifestyle which includes living in wooden houses, farming and fishing. They were traditionally nomadic hunter-gatherers. These days they have become forcibly settled as their hunting grounds have been largely destroyed by logging concessions and palm-oil plantations. Long Adang, Limbang, Sarawak 2015<br />
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There are only a few, difficult to find, scarce communities of semi-nomadic Penan nowadays, who live like of those of old, hidden away deep in the tropical forest, hunter-gathering, wearing loin cloth ‘chawats’, hunting wild boar with blowpipes and poison arrows, and extracting sago-root flour, their staple carbohydrate, by hand.<br />
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Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
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Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region
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  • Nigel with same two Kelabit friends twenty six years later. <br />
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The Penan native people are learning to live a sedentary lifestyle which includes living in wooden houses, farming and fishing. They were traditionally nomadic hunter-gatherers. These days they have become forcibly settled as their hunting grounds have been largely destroyed by logging concessions and palm-oil plantations. Limbang Sarawak Malaysia 2015<br />
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There are only a few, difficult to find, scarce communities of semi-nomadic Penan nowadays, who live like of those of old, hidden away deep in the tropical forest, hunter-gathering, wearing loin cloth ‘chawats’, hunting wild boar with blowpipes and poison arrows, and extracting sago-root flour, their staple carbohydrate, by hand.<br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region
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  • Blockades against the Baram Dam have been a huge success, after years of campaigning and protest, the  Baram Dam in Sarawak has now been shelved. Native leaders including Peter Kallang (white hat) from "Save Rivers" in longboat on Baram river. Baram Sarawak 2015<br />
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The first of 12 mega-dam projects, was the Bakun Dam, which produced a reservoir of 700 sqkm, the size of Singapore, whose flooding began in 2010 and displaced around 10,000 Kenyah people, in Rajang and Belaga. The second phase at Murum would displace a further 24,000 native people, and Baram some 30,000. This huge development program has been overseen by Sarawak's former Chief Minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud, who is now under investigation by Malaysian authorities for corruption, and who has amassed a personal fortune of more than 35 billion US dollars. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region
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  • Blockades against the Baram Dam have been a huge success, after years of campaigning and protest, the Baram Dam in Sarawak has now been shelved. Community leaders at site of Baram dam. Baram Sarawak 2015<br />
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The first of 12 mega-dam projects, was the Bakun Dam, which produced a reservoir of 700 sqkm, the size of Singapore, whose flooding began in 2010 and displaced around 10,000 Kenyah people, in Rajang and Belaga. The second phase at Murum would displace a further 24,000 native people, and Baram some 30,000. This huge development program has been overseen by Sarawak's former Chief Minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud, who is now under investigation by Malaysian authorities for corruption, and who has amassed a personal fortune of more than 35 billion US dollars. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region
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  • Blockades against the Baram Dam have been a huge success, after years of campaigning and protest, the  Baram Dam in Sarawak has now been shelved. Prayers at Baram blockade site. Baram Sarawak 2015<br />
<br />
The first of 12 mega-dam projects, was the Bakun Dam, which produced a reservoir of 700 sqkm, the size of Singapore, whose flooding began in 2010 and displaced around 10,000 Kenyah people, in Rajang and Belaga. The second phase at Murum would displace a further 24,000 native people, and Baram some 30,000. This huge development program has been overseen by Sarawak's former Chief Minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud, who is now under investigation by Malaysian authorities for corruption, and who has amassed a personal fortune of more than 35 billion US dollars. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Blockades against the Baram Dam have been a huge success, after years of campaigning and protest, the  Baram Dam in Sarawak has now been shelved. Baram resistance meeting at night. Baram Sarawak 2015<br />
<br />
The first of 12 mega-dam projects, was the Bakun Dam, which produced a reservoir of 700 sqkm, the size of Singapore, whose flooding began in 2010 and displaced around 10,000 Kenyah people, in Rajang and Belaga. The second phase at Murum would displace a further 24,000 native people, and Baram some 30,000. This huge development program has been overseen by Sarawak's former Chief Minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud, who is now under investigation by Malaysian authorities for corruption, and who has amassed a personal fortune of more than 35 billion US dollars. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region
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