I was watching Bruce Parry's Tribe programme on BBC2 last night and it was about the Penan people in Malaysia and their plight with losing their living environment to the local loggers.

it is good to see that some action is happening. You could see the desperation on the faces of the people who were very passionate about their culture.

NEWS:
The Malaysian authorities have told a timber company they will lose its licence to log on the land of the nomadic Penan, unless it resolves its long-running conflict with the tribe -
http://www.survival-international.org/news/2506

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