Shin Yang – Logging and oil palm, Malaysia

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The Penan have been preventing for a few years to maintain logging firms off their land. Oil palm firms are actually beginning to transfer into areas the place the precious timber has been taken.

Shin Yang has established large-scale oil palm plantations on Penan land, usually with out consulting the Penan.

It is usually one of many greatest timber companies in Sarawak and is licensed to function on main tracts of Penan land.

The corporate is owned by the Ling household and is predicated in Miri, Sarawak.

h2. Denying the Penan’s existence

Shin Yang has confronted repeated blockades by Penan making an attempt to guard their land. The Penan are nonetheless preventing towards continued encroachment by the corporate and have acquired little or no compensation for the lack of the forests they depend on.

The corporate operates on Penan land with out the tribe’s consent, and has even claimed in an ‘Environmental Affect Evaluation’ report that an space the place the tribe dwell contained ‘no everlasting native settlements’ and that there was ‘no authorized declare of NCR [native customary rights] land throughout the land’.

In actual fact, the realm contained at the very least six Penan settlements. Maybe unsurprisingly, one of many consultants concerned in making ready the report was additionally a Shin Yang worker.

Shin Yang began planting oil palm on this space in 2001, clearing giant areas of the Penan’s forest.h2. From Survival’s web site

  “*’Authorities report confirms Penan ladies have been raped by loggers’*”:/information/4940
  “*’Logging protests unfold in Borneo as nomads block roads’*”:/information/4889
  “*The Penan*”:/tribes/penan
  “*Progress Can Kill report*”:/progresscankill

h2. From the online

“*Shin Yang web site*”:https://www.shinyang.com.my/