Penang-based environmental NGO Sahabat Alam Malaysia launched its publication ‘The Land We Lost: Native Customary Rights and Large Monocultures in Sarawak’ in George Town today.

SAM president Meenakshi Raman said the publication provides a critical analysis on how large monoculture plantations are responsible for large-scale deforestation in Sarawak and the violations of the native customary rights (NCR) since the 1990s...