Deforestation for plantation expansion in Sarawak (slides based on work undertaken by various experts and pictures from

1. Deforestation for plantation expansion in Sarawak(slides based on work undertaken by various experts and pictures from various sources)

3. “Trust us, it’s not happening” "By 1990 we have stopped approving new jungle areas to be covered under plantations.” Yusof Basiron, director Malaysian Palm Oil Council, 19 May 2006 “We are not cutting down forests. Most plantations are in their second or third planting cycle, so we are planting on the same plot of land.” Michael Dosim Lunjew, Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities Secretary-General, 15 May 2007 “We will not use virgin jungle and forest reserves for oil palm cultivation. So the issues written by the foreign press and non-government organizations on deforestation are not occurring in Malaysia.” Peter Chin, Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, 28 August 2007. “The government will not allow the clearing of forest areas for any new oil palm plantations. We don’t have to reduce the protected forests to increase new oil palm plantations.” Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, 25 June 2008. “Sarawak is not facing the destruction of its forests and ecosystem as a result of the cultivation of oil palm.” (..) Abdul Taib Mahmud, Sarawak’s Chief Minister, 26 June 2008.

4. Potential natural vegetation

6. Permanent Forest Estate (according to FD 2008)

7. According to FD, 2001

9. Agri-plantation projects (Tan 2002)

10. “Planted Forests” projects, 2008 (partly oil palm)

11. Dam projects

12. Actual deforestation in Sarawak Time series 1998-2012 SarVision Wageningen University, 2008. Pan-tropical forest monitoring programme. Based on MODIS 250m satellite imagery: "NASA/University of Maryland, 2002. MODIS Hotspot / Active Fire Detections. Data set. MODIS Rapid Response Project, NASA/GSFC [producer], University of Maryland, Fire Information for Resource Management System [distributors].

14. Deforestation in Sarawak Updated time series 2004-2008 SarVision Wageningen University, 2008. Pan-tropical forest monitoring programme. Based on MODIS 250m satellite imagery: "NASA/University of Maryland, 2002. MODIS Hotspot / Active Fire Detections. Data set. MODIS Rapid Response Project, NASA/GSFC [producer], University of Maryland, Fire Information for Resource Management System [distributors].

15. December 2004 Source: SarVision

16. December 2005 Source: SarVision

17. June 2007 Source: SarVision

18. March 2008 Source: SarVision

19. Daro and Pulau Bruit 30-12-2002 SPOT5

20. Daro and Pulau Bruit 7-08-2006 SPOT5

21. Daro and Pulau Bruit 7-05-2008 SPOT5

22. Peat swamp forest, logged and being cleared for oilpalm. Only 19,000 ha of virgin peat forest remains in Sarawak

23. Not just in Sarawak(Gunung Ledong, Johor)

24. Peat swamp forest slated for conversion

25. The last trees are logged

26. Deforested peat swamp

27. Peat drainage triggers carbon emissions

28. Landscapes forgone

29. Floods become a common sight

30. The Indigenous Communities in Sarawak: to become Sarawak’s future plantation workers?

31. Employment opportunities often granted to foreign workers

32. Who wouldn’t fight back?