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Victory for Borneo tribe over oil palm Goliath
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14-07-2011, 10:40 AM
A small group of Borneo hunter-gatherers have scored a major victory over a giant oil palm firm that was targeting their rainforest. Survival International revealed last month that the Malaysian firm Shin Yang was clearing forest and planting oil palm in an area where members of the Penan tribe were due to be resettled, to [...]Victory for Borneo tribe over oil palm Goliath is a post from: EconSpire


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