[ [link removed] ]Piles of logs in Borneo rainforest
John,
Greedy timber giant Samling is trying every dirty trick in the book to get
away with destroying Borneo’s precious forests. Now, Borneo’s brave forest
defenders are asking for our help.
After intense pressure, Samling has just been forced to DROP a sneaky
defamation lawsuit against local communities who exposed its rapacious
logging practices.
This is a massive win – but Samling’s nasty lawsuit has drained these
heroes’ funds – and they’re struggling. Our friends at SAVE Rivers know
the only way to stop Samling for good is to keep exposing its
environmental destruction with cold, hard evidence.
Together, we can rush these forest defenders the money to buy drones,
professional cameras, and other critical audio-visual equipment necessary
to record and expose Samling’s shady logging practices. But we have to
move NOW while Samling is still reeling from its defeat.
John, with the Ekō community behind them, Borneo’s forest
heroes can keep defending their homes against multi-million dollar
corporations. Can you help?
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Borneo’s forests are some of the most biodiverse areas on the planet, home
to Indigenous communities and threatened wildlife species like the
beautiful clouded leopard and the sun bear. But they’re in crisis – vast
swathes of forest have been decimated over the last few decades and the
survival of local communities is under threat.
Indigenous communities have been exposing Samling’s ruinous logging
practices for years with clever tactics, collecting photos, videos and
satellite images. Thanks to their fearless work, Samling has already lost
the right to log an area in Borneo the size of Los Angeles, and its
certificate for sustainable forest management is under investigation!
Samling’s failure to bankrupt and silence these heroes shows that
intimidation tactics just don’t stack up in the face of collective people
power.
We demonstrated our might when tens of thousands of us demanded Samling
drop its nasty lawsuit, chipped in to help fund these heroes’ legal costs,
and sent messages straight to Samling’s CEO – and it’s working!
But Borneo’s forest defenders are operating on extremely limited resources
to keep documenting Samling’s destruction – and Samling is counting on
this to get away with its abuse.
John, that’s why it’s so important that Borneo’s forest
defenders have everything they need to quickly collect photographs and
video footage of Samling’s activities while Samling’s reputation is in
tatters.
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We’re so powerful when we act together. *Thousands* of us pressured
Samling to drop their nasty lawsuit against Borneo’s forest defenders,
getting a multi-million dollar corporation to back down from silencing
Indigenous communities. Now, let’s help these heroes continue the fight
against greedy timber giants!
Thanks for all that you do,
Miriam and the Ekō team
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More information:
[ [link removed] ]Taking on Big Timber. Earth Island Journal. 1 August 2022
[ [link removed] ]Timber giant Samling withdraws lawsuit against Indigenous forest
defenders. The Borneo Project. 18 September 2023
[ [link removed] ]Sarawak Indigenous NGO squeezed by defamation case, silenced from
reporting alleged logging. Mongabay. 16 May 2023
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