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12/29/97--Update on Dayak Ibans: Gendang Dies

12/29/97--Drought Induced El Nino Effects Linger into 1998

12/28/97--Forest Fires Add to Orangutan's Demise in Borneo and Sumatra

12/24/97--Update: Police Deployed to Bakong Area

12/23/97--Indigenous Protestors Shot in Sarawak, Malaysia

12/22/97--Heightened Danger for Dayak Indigenous Community Due to Land Dispute

12/17/97--Asia Fire Crisis Not Over Yet, Says Forest Expert

12/17/97--Sustainable Use of Forestry Tested in Dayak Villages

12/16/97--Catastrophic Fires a Planetary Disaster

12/15/97--Drought Fires Razed 165,000 Hectares of Natural Forest

12/8/97--Mamberamo River Basin Threatened by Mega Project

12/7/97--Jakarta Reinstates 45 Permits Revoked for Forest burning Violations

12/1/97--Drought Threatens Indonesia's Rural Poor

11/28/97--CNN Drops Smog Images but Denies Apology

11/28/97--Heat from Indonesia Fires to Be Felt at Climate Meeting

11/27/97--Forests Burn due to American Consumerism

11/20/97--Committee Set up to Watch Internet News

11/18/97--Southeast Asia Haze Problem Vanishes with Monsoon

11/15/97--Indonesia's Peat Smoulders Underground

11/13/97--Fires Destroy 165,000 Hectares of Forests

11/12/97--Environmental Agency Denies El Nino Responsible for Haze

11/12/97--Lawyers Concerned Over Gag Order on Haze

11/12/97--More Incentives Sought by Forest Sector

11/12/97--Malaysian Jungle Story: Dam and Road Projects Threaten Rainforests

11/11/97--More Paper Mills In Sarawak Soon

11/11/97--China to Aid Indonesia in Fighting Forest Fires

11/9/97--Dam Building Raises Troubling Questions about Local Laws

11/9/97--Fires Abate but Smoke Persists

11/9/97--Environmental Minister Says Burned Forests Will Need 500 Years to Recover

11/9/97--Forest Fires and Logging Threaten Five Orchid Species

11/8/97--Indonesia in Joint Ventures with Malaysia, Palm Oil Rival

11/8/97--Landmark Judgment Against Logging, Cut and Run Operations Continue

11/8/97--Opposition Leaders Criticizes Ban on Comments about Haze

11/8/97--Government Order Barring Smog Talk Sparks Debate

11/6/97--U.S. Officials Recommend Extending Program to Put out Fires

11/1/97--Smog Persists Despite Rains, One Airport Closed

11/1/97--Government Officials Say Fires Subside but Smog Thickens

11/1/97--U.S. Official Blames Smog on Indonesia Agriculture Policy

11/1/97--Smog Thickens, but Government Officials say Fires are Subsiding

11/1/97--Peat Fires Still Raging, says Sumatra Official

10/31/97--Police Will Prosecute Anyone Responsible for Starting Forest Fires

10/31/97--Forestry Experts Say Fires to Worsen in Coming Years

10/30/97--Orangutan Chainsaw Massacre in Borneo

10/29/97--Orangutans being Hacked to Death

10/29/97--Gallon Environment Letter: Indonesian Fires IV

10/28/97--Sarawak Natives Protest: Sahabat Alam Malaysia Update

10/27/97--Sarawak Natives Protest: Update

10/24/97--Australian Government to Provide Assistance with Forest Fires

10/29/97--Indonesia: Mega-Rice Project and "Free Logging" in Central Kalimantan

10/26/97--Orangutan Fare Grim Fate After Fleeing Smoke-filled Habitats

10/23/97--Fires under Control but Still Dangerous

10/22/97--Minister Says, Haze Remains at Danger Level

10/22/97--Ministers Jet Turns Back After Flying into Haze

10/21/97--ICRAF Report Says Fires 'Weapon in Social Conflict'

10/17/97--Indonesian Burning Intensifies

10/17/97--Orangutan Killed as Apes Flee From Burning Forests

10/17/97--Forest Fires Dwindle

10/16/97--Forest Fires Could Release More Greenhouse Gas than All of Europe

10/16/97--Malaysian Firefighters Ends Services in Indonesia

10/14/97--U.S. Envoy Pledges Help as Fires Rage

10/14/97--Fires One of the Worst Global Environmental Disasters

10/13/97--Palm Oil Nepotism Adds Fuel to Disaster

10/13/97--Borneo Needs 25 Years to Recover from Forest Fires

10/13/97--Planetary Disaster: Indonesian Fires Illustrate Costs of Forest Ecosystem Collapse

10/11/97--Devastating Forest Fires Called 'Planetary Disaster'

10/10/97--U.S. Acts for SE Asian Haze Relief

10/10/97--Suharto, World Bank Responsible for Forest Fires

10/9/97--Governmental Officials Say Smog Will Lift in October

10/9/97--Government Indifference Fuels Forest Fire Disaster

10/8/97--The Indonesian Forest Fires

10/8/97--Misinformation Regarding Forest Fires

10/6/97--Forestry Minister Counts the Cost of Forest Fires

10/5/97--President Suharto Repeats Apology for Smog

10/4/97--Orangutans Face Death Casualties in Fires

10/4/97--Suharto Says Indonesia Doing Its Best to Combat Fires

10/4/97--Forest Firms Deny Setting Flames

10/4/97--Why is Indonesia Burning?

10/3/97--Indonesian Forest Crisis Over Old-Growth

10/3/97--Timber Tycoon Sees Land Clearing as Service to Government

10/3/97--1,800 Sumatra Elephants Choking from Forest Fires

10/3/97--Logging Licenses Revoked over Smog Crisis

10/3/97--Plantations Firms under Investigation Over Fires

10/3/97--Malaysian Officials Expect Smog Fires to Worsen

10/2/97--Fire Officials Say Forest Fires Mostly Extinguished

10/2/97--Will the Smoke Wake up Southeast Asia?

10/2/97--Politicians Burned by Forest Fires

10/2/97--Farmers Still Setting Fires Despite Smog

10/2/97--Smog To Go But No End To Forest Fires

10/2/97--Forest Minister Offers to Quit over Smoke Pall

10/1/97--Jakarta Hazy from Pollution

10/1/97--Why the Forest and the Land Burns

10/1/97--Fiddling while the Forest Burn

10/1/97--Government Officials Say Smog Will Lift in October

10/1/97--Smog Unabated Amid Drought Warning

10/1/97--United Nations Says Fires Will do Lasting Harm

10/1/97--United Nations Warn Forest Fires Out of Control

10/1/97--Timber Barons Deny Blame for Forest Fires

10/1/97--Indonesia Must Have Accountability for Inferno in Forests

9/30/97--Greenpeace Urges Suharto to Enforce Ban on Forest Clearing

9/29/97--Rainforest Rescue Reps Meet With Government

9/29/97--Forest Fires Destroy 100 Species of Indonesian Medicinal Plants

9/29/97--Suharto Fiddles While Indonesia's Forests Burn

9/29/97--Haze from Forest Fires Hampers Life

9/29/97--Prime Minister Says Economy Affected by Smog

9/27/97--Many Expatriates Leave as Smog Persists

9/27/97--President Suharto, Stop the Killing of People and Nature!

9/27/97--Peat Said Asian Smog Culprit, Sparking Alarm

9/26/97--Focus-Sirens Blare as Malaysians Hit Forest Fires

9/26/97--Despite Emergency, Forest Fires Continue in Southeast Asia

9/24/97--Indonesia Steps up Fight against Haze-producing Brush Fires

9/23/97--Smoky Haze Hits Dangerous Levels in Some of Southeast Asia

9/10/97--Suharto Bans Fires to Clear Land

9/5/97--Bakun Dam Delayed Indefinitely

9/5/97--Environmental Groups Demand Bakun Dam be Scrapped

9/4/97--Swiss-Swedish Firm Kicked Out of Bakun Dam

8/27/97--Hell on Earth: The Rainforests of Borneo Are Burning

8/23/97--Parliament Passes Tougher Environment Bill

8/22/97--'Extinct' Marsupial Seen in Irian Jaya

8/13/97--Malaysian Envoy Reports no Complaints about Logging in South Pacific Region

8/7/97--President Suharto Launches Huge Pulp Mill

8/6/97--42 Ibans Freed: High Court Squashed Order to Keep Peace

8/6/97--Alleged Thievery in Kelantan

8/5/97--High Court Squashes Lower Court Decision Concerning Dayak Ibans

7/31/97--Upcoming Crucial Government Decision Concerning New Zealand Native Forest

7/22/97--42 Ibans Arrested in Protest Against Oil Palm Plantation

7/22/97--3 Ibans Released on Bail to Seek Medical Treatment

7/22/97--Letter from the Ibans in Miri Central Prison

7/22/97--Sarawak Update: Chief Tr. Rayong Rearrested/ 11 Ibans Released

7/22/97--Update on the 42 Ibans Arrested

7/13/97--Asian Loggers Target the World's Remaining Rainforests

6/30/97--Honorary Wildlife Ranger Arrested to Stop Felling of Trees

6/28/97--Urgent Call for Action

6/12/97--Bob Hasan Gets Environmental Prize

5/1/97--Sarawak Tribal Elders Protest in Prison to Protect Their Land from Developers

4/28/97--White House Recognizes Indonesia's Forestry Progress

4/15/97--Community Activists Reap Rewards as Goldman Prize Winners

4/13/97--Freeport on Its 'Agreement' With the Amungme

4/8/97--Habibie Proposes another Mega Project in Irian Jaya

4/5/97--Malaysian Penan Struggle Continues

4/2/97--Threat to Penan People

3/28/97--Prominent Dayaks Accused of Subversion for Violent Ethnic Conflict

3/24/97--Urgent Action Needed on Siberut Plantation Plan

3/14/97--Indonesian Pulp Firm Signs $991 Million Loan

3/14/97--Letters to the Chief Minister of Sarawak Needed

2/26/97--Freeport in East Kalimantan

2/26/97--European Parliament Resolution on Yamdena Island

2/25/97--Killings in West Kalimantan due to Land Rights Issues

2/24/97--Poor Management Threatening Highlands

2/21/97--Kalimantan, Indonesia: All Logged Out?

2/8/97--Kalimantan, Indonesia: Old Ways Die with the Falling Forest

2/1/97--Busang: Fighting Over the Pot of Gold

1/30/97--Australian Miners Accused of Vandalism

1/20/97--Indonesia: Development, Degraded Rainforests & Decreasing Global Biological Diversity

1/19/97--Borneo's Primate Sanctuary

1/14/97--Genetic Differences in Rhinos Complicate Conservation Effort

12/3/96--Sabah Acts to Improve Forest Management

12/3/96--Firm Gets Quality Certification for Forest Management

12/3/96--Malaysian Montane Forest Fact File

11/24/96--Native Land Rights Further Eroded in Sarawak

11/21/96--152 Illegal Logging Cases in Johor

11/9/96--Malaysian Government U.S. Contact Information

10/24/96--President Suharto of Indonesia and His Global Forestry Interests

10/23/96--Sabah Log Export Ban Partially Lifted

10/21/96--Logging Blockade: 7 Ibans Arrested in Sarawak

10/14/96--Mother Jones Magazine Article on Freeport Mine

9/19/96--World's Largest Gold Mine Cancels World Bank Insurance Contract

9/18/96--Asian (Mostly Malaysian) Loggers Put Brazil on Alert Over Amazon

9/10/96--Military Stops Logging Indefinitely in Timika

8/30/96--Canadian Gold Rush Continues!

8/30/96--New Projects Mean More Stress on Natural Forests

8/30/96--Kalimantan: Dayak Dispossessed

8/25/96--Asia Pulp and Paper Expands in Sarawak

8/19/96--Asian Logging Giants Extend Reach into Rainforests of World

8/14/96--Native Land Rights Further Eroded in Sarawak

8/7/96--Indonesia: 1,000,000 Hectare Mega-Project Planned for Peat Forests

7/21/96--Legal Tussle Over Malaysia's Bakun Dam in Sarawak Rainforests Continues

7/20/96--Plans to Reforest Idle Land

7/14/96--Government Gives Warning to Lay Off Land Rights Issues

7/8/96--NGOs Worldwide Oppose Bakun Dam in Malaysia

7/5/96--Federal Court Does Not Dismiss Law Suit Against Freeport-McMoRan Mining Company

7/3/96--Irian Jayan Tribes Reject Miner's Offer

7/2/96--Indonesian Tribesman Reject Freeport Trust-Fund Offer

7/2/96--News Clippings & Updates Concerning Bakun Dam Development

6/25/96--Transfer of Bakun Dam Environmental Impact Assessment Rule Invalid

6/20/96--Court Rules Bakun Environmental Impact Assessment is Illegal

6/5/96--Troubled Provinces to Get Cash Injunction

5/27/96--Lawsuit Against Freeport Mine in Indonesia Begins

5/23/96--Tom Beanal's Speech from Loyola University, New Orleans

5/16/96--Government's Plan for the Development of the Malaysian Timber Industry

5/14/96--References for Impacts on Penan Due to Unsustainable Logging

5/8/96--Earth's Oldest Rainforest Being Decimated in Sarawak

5/2/96--Indonesia Tribesman Casts Doubt Over Freeport Suit

4/19/96--Giant Indonesia Mine Making Progress on Environment

4/9/96--Freeport Says to Stay in Indonesia Despite Riots

4/7/96--Police Spray Teargas to End Malaysian Dam Protest

3/30/96--Malaysian Prime Minister Says the Right Things About Rainforests

3/29/96--Prime Minister of Malaysia's Visit to Australia Prompts Rainforest Protests

3/18/96--Malaysian Government Offers Aid to Solomons Logging Industry

3/14/96--Amnesty International Fears Torture of Arrested Protestors

3/14/96--Mysterious Death of Tom Wainggai

3/14/96--Indonesian Orangutans on Brink of Extinction due to Development Pressures

3/14/96--Irian Mine Closure Unlikely to be Another Bougainville

3/14/96--Amungme People Want Dialogue with Moffett

3/13/96--1000 on Rampage in Timika, Disrupting Freeport Mine Operations

3/12/96--Riot Abates at PT Freeport Irian Jaya Mine Site

3/12/96--Commission Tries to Find Effective Way to Manage Forests

3/11/96--Rioters in Freeport Tembagapura Attack Mining Company

3/4/96--Irianese Tribe Renews Call for Probe of Freeport

3/4/96--Tribal Council Urges Fresh Investigation into Irian Jaya Killings

3/3/96--Indonesia Tells Forest Body to Reject Timber Bans

2/29/96--Major Money's Influence in Freeport-Indonesia Affair

2/28/96--West Kalimantan Villagers Attack Pulp Project

2/28/96--Bentian People of East Kalimantan Appeal to Human Rights Commission

2/28/96--Exploration Honey Pot for Canadians

2/22/96--Abri Free Two Hostages in Paniai

2/21/96--Indonesia Mine a Blessing and a Curse

2/11/96--University of New Orleans Driftwood Editorial on Freeport

2/8/96--A Copper Mine of Death, or Misplaced Blame?

2/4/96--Freeport and the National Wetlands Coalition

2/4/96--Loggers Move Into Indigenous Lands in Indonesia Again

2/1/96--Urgent Action: Loggers Move in on Yamdena Island Forests Again

2/1/96--Kalimantan: Paper and Pulp Invasion

1/30/96--Logging to Be Stepped Up in West Papua

1/26/96--Twelve Elephants Die Mysteriously on Sumatra Island

1/25/96--Feer: Freeport Under Seige

1/15/96--Malaysian Forest Activist's Passport Revoked

1/14/96--WWF in Netherlands Asks for Money to Eliminate Mining Effects

12/23/95--Indonesia's Timber Industry: Rape of the Rainforest

12/17/95--Malaysian Disinformation Concerning Industrial Forestry Practices

12/14/95--Malaysia's Prime Minister Objects to Outside Interference

12/14/95--U.S. Company Embroiled in Human Rights Controversy

12/10/95--Background Briefing Radio Broadcast about Freeport Mine

12/7/95--Steven Feld Speaks on Freeport

12/95--US Mining Giant Implicated in Indonesian Atrocities

11/95--World's Largest Gold Mine is Causing Unreasonable Environmental Hazard

11/95--U.S. Punishes Mining Company Over Indonesian Freeport Mine

11/95--Gold Mining Firm Launches Public Relations Campaign

11/95--How Sustainable is Malaysia's Forest Industry?

11/95--Sarawak, Malaysia--Blockades Resume

10/95--Freeport-McMoRan Protests

9/95--One Indonesian/Surinamese Timber Deal Scuttled, Others Continue

7/95--Freeport in Irian Jaya, Corporate Predator

7/95--Malaysian Loggers Get 6 Months to Prepare Environmental Reports

6/95--Malaysian Loggers Get Film To Feature Sustainable Logging

5/95--Trouble at Freeport/Eyewitness Reports of Killings

5/95--BBC Confirms Freeport Killings in West Papua

4/95--WALHI Files Complaint Against Timber Tycoon

4/95--Update on Violation of Bentian Land Rights, East Kalimantan

4/95--Appeals Denied, More Killings at Freeport Concession Area

4/95--Sarawak: The Struggle Continues

3/95--Rtz Links Up With Freeport: "A Marriage Made in Hades"

3/95--Indo. Logging Destroys Indigenous Sustainable System

2/95--Indonesian Legislators Learn of Ecolabeling

2/95--Forest Reserves Used for Agriculture to be Replaced by 2000

11/94--Vanuatu PM Explains Log Export Ban While in Malaysia

11/94--Sarawak Penans Lodge Police Report

11/94--New book on Sarawak Penan Ridiculed

11/94--Environmentalist's Behind Penan Police Reports?

10/94--Malaysia's Double Standards

9/94--Bakun Dam Threatens Borneo Rainforest and Peoples

9/94--Indonesian Island of Siberut Protected--Illegal Logging Continues

8/94--Indonesian Dam--World Bank Project Displacing Indigenous Peoples

8/94--Indonesian Forestry Advertisement Banned In UK

8/94--Mahathir on Pacific Logging

7/94--Mining Takes its Toll on West Papua

7/94--Indonesia-Malaysia Plantation Deal

6/94--Sarawak: Arrests and Trials

5/94--Malaysian Penan Repression Continues/Sample Letter

5/94--Indonesian Labelling Scheme

5/94--Indonesia's Actions in Irian Jaya

3/94--Sarawak: Kenyah's Jailed!

3/94--Illegal Logging in Indonesia

3/94--Ekran Clearcuts Sarawak

2/94--World's Biggest Pulp Mill Being Built in a Rainforest

2/94--Nation: Suharto's Cronies Profit

1/94--Anderson Mutang Interview --Leader Against Sarawak Rainforest Destruction

12/93--Logging Company Looks for Investors

11/93--Indonesia Wants More Reforestation

11/93--Timber blockage laws passed

11/93--Sarawak Forest Law Amended to Ban Blockades

11/93--Sarawak Activist Anderson May Return to Face Charges

11/93--Penan Funds Rip-Off or NGO Bashing?

11/93--Military Invades Penan Village/20 People Flee

11/93--Malaysian Eco-groups Threatened

11/93--Anti-Government Group Instigating Longhouse Folk

10/93--Loggers Ignoring EIA (big)

10/93--Loggers Ignoring EIA

9/93--Malaysian Logging Companies Exploiting Forests Abroad

9/93--Third World Network: Sarawa Update

9/93--Indonesia Watchdog

9/93--Sarawak Timber Demonstration

9/93--Sarawak Leader's Passport Revoked

9/93--RAN Under Attack Again in Malaysia

9/93--Malaysia Will Fight Back, Swiss Told

9/93--Malaysia Has Right to Develop its Forests

9/93--Klockner in Destructive Pulp Mill

9/93--Japan Imported RM$894.2 Million log

8/93--Penan Face Powerful Forces

8/93--MTIDC to Counter Anti-Tropical Timber Campaign

5/93--58 Day Hunger Strike to Support Penan Blockade

4/93--Call for Sarawak Solidarity Fast

4/93--45 day Hungerstrike Continues in Europe

3/93--Sarawak Update

3/93--Sarawak Blockade Update

3/93--Malaysia Plans World Forestry Group

2/93--Help Saban People Regain Custodianship of Their Land

12/92--Sahabat Alam Malaysia/Sarawak Update

11/92--Free West Papua!

10/92--Freeport Falls Short in Irian Jaya

10/92--Beware of Travel Malaysia Circus

9/92--Sahabat Alam Malaysia/Sarawak Update

8/92--WRM Response to British ODA On Sarawak

5/92--Skephi on Indonesian Forest Policy

5/92--Pulping the Rainforest/Latest Pulp Expansion Plans

4/92--Global Fight to Save Rainforests of Sarawak

4/92--'Andy' Mutang Flees Malaysia Under Threat of Arrest

2/92--Sarawak Blockade to be Removed in Days

2/92--Canadian Parliament Member Visit Sparks Arrest

1/92--More Arrests in Sarawak

12/91--Malaysia Calls for Pollution/Forest Studies

11/91--Greenpeace/Stop Import of Tropical Timbers from Sarawak

10/91--More Freeport Articles

10/91--Freeport Taps Global Controversy

9/91--Malaysia and European Parliament

8/91--Sarawak Struggle: Brief History & Background

8/91--Prosecution Failed to Show Criminal Tresspass: Defence

8/91--Curbing Forest Destruction Via Openness & Accountability

8/91--8 Dayaks, Protecting Own Land, Charged and Sentenced

7/91--Bruno's Lamp Post Protest

6/91--Sarawak Natives Blockade to Halt Logging of Borneo Rainforest

12/89--Mamberamo Forest Products: Crooks, Liars, Hypocrites and Destroyers

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