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...drought caused by El Nino, have been even worse, spreading into remote reaches of the virgin rain forest. Since January, hundreds of fires have claimed 700,000 acres of woodland, casting a pall of smoke over the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak. While recent rains have quenched many of the fires, the situation remains volatile. Moreover, the whole world may feel the heat. The burning forests are adding tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, worsening the threat of global warming...
Breathe the air for a day in Sarawak right now, and according to health experts, you will be inhaling the equivalent of 80 cigarettes. It is no surprise, then, that an estimated 32,000 people in Southeast Asia are suffering from smoke-related illnesses, as the whole region chokes under the weight of the smog caused by hundreds of Indonesian forest fires. The fires created a dense blanket of smoke over Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the southern Philippines and southern Thailand. There is a state of emergency in several major cities. Schools and hospitals have been closed. In places such...
...Malaysia's Anderson Mutang, founder of the Sarawak Indigenous People's Alliance, is scheduled to go on trial in September for operating an illegal organization. In the past six years, Mutang, a native Kelabit who grew up in Sarawak's forests, has directed six blockades of logging roads. Arrested in February, he was released on bail after four weeks, including 10 days in solitary confinement in a windowless room. During his imprisonment, he says, three pairs of police officers questioned him for seven or eight hours a day, sometimes until 4 a.m. His interrogators, who threatened him with torture, demanded...
...powered conservationists out of Washington had to live in his apartment with his income, they would quit in five minutes." Kuroda is pleased that his government has begun to respond to his campaign, but he shows no sign of quitting. "Japanese people have a responsibility for the destruction of Sarawak's forests," he says. "If they can understand that, the forests can be saved...
...face of indomitable natives and pressure from foreign environmentalists, the Sarawak government has begun a dialogue with the Penans, and Malaysians have begun to respect those natives who choose to live in the forests. Thanks to Ngau and his colleagues, there is a sliver of hope that the grim sacking of Sarawak may be halted...