Indigenous communities in Sarawak, Malaysia, are fighting back against a
destructive monoculture bamboo plantation that would destroy their native
forests.

Tell plantation giant, Rich Venture, to stop the bamboo plantation now!

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John,

Right now Sarawak’s native forests are being torn down to make way for a
giant monoculture plantation of bamboo — a project that could devastate
ecosystems and local communities for generations to come.

The forests are home to the Kayan, Kenyah, Lahanan, Ukit and Penan
Indigenous communities who have cared for the land for generations. Now,
plantation giant Rich Venture is completely disregarding their land rights
and failing to properly consult them.

Rich Venture just wants to get rich and doesn’t care what it destroys
along the way. Earlier this year, bulldozers began tearing down Sarawak’s
native forests—and the destruction is just going to ramp up.

But Indigenous communities are fighting back. They’re in talks with the
Sarawak Government and hoping to meet with the Premier very soon. We must
act fast to back them and shine a global spotlight on this
devastation—before even more of their ancestral forests are lost.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: tell Rich Venture to stop the bamboo plantation and
compensate local communities.

These communities have already faced injustices. In the 1990s the
construction of a mega-dam flooded 15 villages, displacing more than 9,000
people.

And now Rich Venture wants to cut down swathes of the remaining native
forest on the banks of the dam which will result in erosion and sediment
runoff which could flow straight into the Bakun Reservoir–threatening the
water quality, fisheries and food security for locals.

Endangered species like gibbons, clouded leopards and hornbills are also
at risk of losing their habitats to over 28,000 football fields of bamboo
which won’t provide any food or shelter to the native animals already
struggling to survive.

Local communities have asked Rich Venture that they be properly consulted
and have access to management plans and environmental impact assessments
but their requests have been completely disregarded.

[ [link removed] ]Add your name to the petition and help the Indigenous communities in
Sarawak protect their native forests.

Together we’ve taken on big corporations destroying forests and won. We
supported Forest Defenders fighting to stop palm oil giant Sin Heng Chan
from destroying the Ulu Belaga forest–and a moratorium on new forest
clearing has just been put in place!

Let’s do it again and stop Rich Venture’s monoculture bamboo plantation.



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


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Committee lodges police report, demands suspension of logging licence
for Bakun Dam forests
The Borneo Post 26 September 2025
[ [link removed] ]Deforestation Alert: New Bamboo Plantation on Bakun Dam
Borneo Project 08 October 2025

 

 

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