this just in:

ACTION ALERT
Malaysia Must Stop the Violence Against the Penan and Logging of
Their Rainforests

By Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet, Inc. http://www.rainforestportal.org/
July 9, 2006

TAKE ACTION
Insist Malaysian authorities respect native customary land
rights and boundaries of Penan's last remaining ancestral
rainforest reserves http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=penan

Malaysia's indigenous Penan peoples are again resorting to
logging road blockades to protect their native customary land
rights and last remaining ancestral rainforest reserves. Logging
workers of Malaysian Interhill logging have already dismantled a
Penan logging road blockade near Ba Abang in the Middle Baram
region of Sarawak on the Island of Borneo. Now the Police and
Federal Reserve Unit are reportedly moving into the Baram region
to break at the behest of Samling logging a long-standing second
blockade erected by the Penan to protect the boundaries of their
last remaining large rainforest expanse. There exists great
potential yet again in Sarawak for deadly violence against
indigenous peoples striving to protect their way of life and
rainforest habitats. And Malaysia's government must be held
accountable for the conduct of Malaysian logging companies there
and throughout the world. Take action now at:
http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=penan

see this article in The Times:
Dying tribe takes on timber giants over lost habitat
'Your suppliers are killing us,' Asian forest dwellers tell a British lumber group.