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Article

8 May 2009

Author:
Survival International [USA]

Landmark court ruling could help tribes stop deforestation and oil palm plantations [Malaysia]

A landmark ruling...by the Malaysian courts this week could allow tribes on the island of Borneo to stop logging and oil palm plantations destroying their forests...The...Court ruled...that indigenous people...have rights to land they use for hunting and gathering as well as land they use for growing food. Previously, the Sarawak government did not recognise tribal peoples' rights over their traditional land unless they could show that they had grown crops there…