Mongabay: Rights activists are warning that a proposal to classify islands forming in the midst of the Bakun Dam reservoir will further deprive indigenous forest people of their traditional land.
The Borneo Project, a Berkeley-based group that advocates on behalf of Sarawak's forest people, has started a petition calling upon Sarawak's chief minister Abdul Taib Mahmud to cancel plans to establish "Bakun Islands National Park", highlands that became islands once the massive dam was completed in 2011. The...