Penan communities set up blockade in bid to stop logging activities

Several Penan communities in the Middle Baram area in Sarawak have set up a blockade to stop alleged encroachment of their native customary land (NCR land) by a logging company, according to an NGO.

The group Bruno Manser Fonds (BMF) said yesterday that the community has struggled with the logging activities in their NCR land by Samling Group for more than two months since the first trees were cut in late August.

It said this is the second blockade in the Baram region...