Deforestation and illegal evictions threaten Malaysia’s Indigenous peoples

Grist
By Anita HofschneiderMay 12, 2025, 4:15 am260 pts
On October 20, 2022, Jeffery Nang, chief of the Rumah Jeffrey people in Malaysia, went to a community meeting and was handed a letter by a government official in Sarawak, a state on the island of Borneo in Malaysia. The letter was an eviction notice for Nang and the 60-some members of Rumah Jeffrey, who are…

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