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Article

15 Jun 2011

Author:
Survival International

Penan hunter-gatherers to be dumped in vast oil palm plantation

More than 1,000 Penan hunter-gatherers will be taken from their rainforest home and dumped in a vast oil palm plantation – to make way for the controversial Murum dam...They told the government that if they had to leave they wanted to move to another part of their ancestral land. The government accepted this – but has sold the same area to the Malaysian company Shin Yang, which is clearing the forest and planting thousands of oil palms...