Timber giant Samling wants to take Borneo’s forest defenders to court for
exposing its destructive logging.

Will you add your name to the petition demanding Samling drop the lawsuit?

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John,

Global timber giant Samling is logging Indigenous land in Borneo without
consent. When four forest defenders exposed Samling they were slapped with
a lawsuit designed to silence and bankrupt them.

The timber corporations' logging is also fueling the climate crisis and
destroying the habitats of endangered gibbons, clouded leopards and
pangolins.

Samling could drop the lawsuit at any time - so let’s stir up a global
outcry to force them to.  Will you help, John?

[ [link removed] ]Add your name to the petition demanding Samling drop the lawsuit
against Borneo’s forest defenders.

The family that owns Samling is worth over $400 million and this isn’t the
first time destructive practices have been revealed.

A Samling subsidiary has been fined for bribing forestry officials. A
company setup by one of the founders was ordered by a court to pay
millions in compensation to Indigenous communities in Papua New Guinea.
And just last month the sustainable forestry certification program
launched an investigation into Samling’s logging and violation of human
rights.

Samling’s lawsuit against the small four person grassroots organisation,
SAVE Rivers, is the act of a bully. Even the UN says the lawsuit may be
unfounded and has issued a public statement expressing concerns to the
Malaysian government about Samling's dodgy practices.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition calling on Samling to stop legal action and respect
the rights of Indigenous communities.

Thousands of us have already chipped in to help fund this legal fight so
far. Now we can help by getting the case dropped. Samling might have
millions of dollars, but we have millions of people around the world who
can shine a spotlight on the lawsuit and demand Samling stop destroying
Indigenous land.

Ekō members like you have done this before when more than 200,000 people
took action to support Máxima, an Indigenous Peruvian farmer, to keep her
land safe from the world's second biggest gold mining corporation. Let’s
do it again in Borneo.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Nish, Angus and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Malaysia: UN experts express concern over Samling's alleged SLAPP
against SAVE Rivers
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre. 2 November 2022.
[ [link removed] ]How Sarawak's Timber Barons Samling Are Evading A Multi-Million Dollar
Court Judgement In PNG
Sarawak Report. 1 February 2020.
[ [link removed] ]FSC investigation into Samling
Forest Stewardship Council. 1 May 2023.
[ [link removed] ]300 Long Moh villagers demand justice after unpermitted logging on
their land
SAVE Rivers. 10 March 2021.

 

 

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