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The article was orginally published at: Borneo Tribesmen Armed with Blowpipes Block Roads, Stop Palm Oil Plantations
To give you a sense of the sort of destruction the Penan people are trying to stop, this area has been cleared for oil palms. Photo: Hayden via flickr.
Here’s a very concrete example of how roads into rainforests can bring indigenous people into the firing line: TimesOnline reports that hundreds of men from Borneo’s Penan…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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