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?

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.

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.