"Instead of issuing trade war threats to the EU, Malaysian politicians should focus on cleaning up Sarawak which has become the dirty backyard of the Malaysian palm oil industry“, said BMF executive director Lukas Straumann in a statement.
BMF, in its report titled:"The Mulu Land Grab", claimed the company linked to Sarawak governor Taib Mahmud's family and associates, had failed to respect native customary rights by the local Penan and Berawan/Termin communities. The report also claimed that the company fell 30,000 cubic metres of timber worth US$10,000 without a proper timber extraction licence near the Unesco-protected Gunung Mulu National Park.
It added the company also failed to comply with the terms of the lease, which was granted in 2018, to start planting within two years.MalaysiakiniPrimary Industries Minister Teresa Kok had previously also raisedWhile the majority of oil palm plantation in Malaysia are on existing plantation land, the opening of some new plantations through logging, including the one in Sarawak, could hamper Putrajaya's effort to counter anti-palm oil sentiment in Europe.
Instead of demonizing palmoil and generalizing all oilpalm growers worldwide to be like this 1 isolated case in Sarawak, why don't bmfonds make EU to match Malaysia's 68% forest cover? Start with Switzerland first. .
The main purpose of deforestation is timber. To salvage it then we plant something on it. Palm oil is the most economically viable option. So there is no direct correlation between deforestation and palm oil. The article is misleading and with malicious intention.
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