Two Penan villages refuse to participate in timber audit

Two Penan villages in the upper Baram region are refusing to participate in the Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme (MTCS) auditing processes for the Tama Abu Forest Management Unit (FMU).

This was expressed by the headpersons for Long Lamai and Ba Lai villages in their respective letters to Samling Timber Malaysia, which is undergoing auditing for sustainable forest management certification within this FMU...