Palm oil company Sin Heng Chan is destroying the beautiful Ulu Belaga
forest at breakneck speed. And Indigenous Forest Defenders peacefully
protesting this destruction of their land have been arrested.

Will you support the Forest Defenders and demand a stop to the
deforestation for palm oil and protect the Ulu Belaga forest?

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John,

Indigenous Forest Defenders put their bodies on the line to blockade
encroaching palm oil plantations in the beautiful Ulu Belaga forest in
Malaysian Borneo. Then, they were hauled into the police station and
forced to sign documents agreeing to their own arrest.

It’s an outrageous act designed to intimidate and silence locals just
trying to protect their land from being destroyed by giant palm oil
company Sin Heng Chan.

Indigenous Kenyah and Penan communities depend on the Ulu Belaga forest
for their livelihoods. It’s a source of traditional medicines, rattan,
wood and palm hearts. The pristine river that runs through it provides
fish to eat.

Let’s demand that Sin Heng Chan stops the deforestation for palm oil by
making this a massive global issue that’s too big for them to ignore.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Sin Heng Chan stop the deforestation of the Ulu
Belaga forest.

Sin Heng Chan has publicly said it had stopped all new deforestation. But
satellite data and footage from drones (that Ekō members chipped in for)
shows forests are being destroyed at breakneck speed.

Sin Heng Chan’s Urun palm oil plantation has already destroyed more than
14,000 football fields worth of forest. One local described the sound of
trees being cut down as the “sound of death”.

Villagers have been fighting back against the deforestation of their
native forest – signing an open letter to the government and corporation
calling on them to remove their land from the plantation license. And the
mounting pressure resulted in a Malaysian Senator calling for a stop to
the plantation’s deforestation activities. Now, let’s really turn up the
heat and back in what local communities and the Senator are calling for.

[ [link removed] ]Add your name to the petition and help protect the Ulu Belaga forest.

Together we’ve taken on big corporations destroying forests and won. We
supported Forest Defenders who were hit with a defamation lawsuit by
Samling for exposing illegal logging. After global pressure from thousands
of people, Samling dropped its lawsuit and stopped its illegal logging in
Sarawak.

Let’s do it again and stop Sin Heng Chan from chopping down the Ulu Belaga
forest.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Nish and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Long Urun residents call for S’wak govs intervention to halt
deforestation in Upper Belaga River
Dayak Daily 28 December 2025
[ [link removed] ]The Promise of ‘No Deforestation’: Sarawak’s Forests Tell a Different
Story
The Borneo Project 07 January 2025
 

 

 

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