Indigenous activists celebrate bitter victory over rainforest dam moratorium

Indigenous activists celebrate bitter victory over rainforest dam moratorium,
October 22, 2015,
By Rod Harbinson, Mongabay,
The Ecologist,

As indigenous activists opposing hydropower dams on their territories gather this weekend in the rainforests of Sarawak, Malaysia, they have good news to celebrate, writes Rod Harbinson: a giant dam on the Baram river has been put on hold. But the forests are still being logged, local people have been stripped of land rights, and a programme of 12 giant dams is still official policy.