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Samling is the mega-logging company that has received concessions to chop down over one million hectares of Sarawak’s once pristine and immensely valuable tropical rainforest over the past four decades, mainly thanks to the decision-making of the present Governor Abdul Taib Mahmud. Company officers like to boast that in the process the company became the largest single global customer of Caterpillar bulldozers. Think about the level of destruction. The same company has been proven by Sarawak Report to have gifted at least two North American mansions to the same Governor of Sarawak, but such...

BBC News Published image captionOne of the brands of bikes stolen from The Wee Bike Hub shop Twenty bikes worth a total of more than £50,000 have been stolen from premises at a Cairngorms mountain bike trail. Eight hire bikes were stolen from a community enterprise at Laggan Wolftrax Visitor Centre and 12 from The Wee Bike Hub bike shop, also at the centre. Thieves cut power to the centre in the incident which happened overnight on 15 and 16 January. Laggan Forest Trust said lockdown demand for bikes would make it hard for it to replace the stolen hire bikes. Eight of its Polygon Siskiu T8 b...

Paper giant APP failing its own sustainability goals, report alleges A new report urges bank and buyers to stop doing business with Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), one of the world’s biggest paper producers, for its alleged failure to uphold its own sustainability commitments. The report, by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN), a coalition of NGOs, lists a litany of violations — from destruction of tropical peat ecosystems to the prevalence of burning to persistent community conflicts — associated with APP’s operations in Indonesia. The company has denied the allegations, saying it continu...