2008-04-20
Photos by Late Borneo Rainforest Rights Advocate Go Online. By Jeremy Hance, Mongabay.com, April 17, 2008. "On April 19th over 10,000 of [Swiss environmentalist] Bruno Manser's photographs will be made available to the public online. The pictures are rare documentation of the nomadic Penan peoples from the Malaysian state of Sarawak in Borneo... Manser proved an unflinching and passionate advocate for the Penans in the 1990s as their territory was increasingly deforested by industrial logging companies... [Lukas Straumann, Director of the Bruno Manser Fonds, a nonprofit based in Basel, Switzerland, said that] ... 'apart from their socio-cultural value, the pictures could also become important evidence in land rights litigations for Penan communities who struggle to have their land rights legally recognized by the courts.'" [Click here to see the photos.]
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment