Logging threatens Bornean forest earmarked for Indigenous Peace Park

Mongabay
Oct 8, 2026, 10:25 am115 ptsTrending
Part of a forest in Malaysian Borneo that Indigenous communities had envisioned co-managing and self-governing has been turned into an active commercial logging concession, according to a recent civil society report. The 283,500-hectare (700,500-acre) Upper Baram Forest Area, in the northeastern part of the…

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