[ap-intact] INFO: After lumber, Malaysian timber barons said to ‘export’ Sarawak’s corruption model

An environmental activist has claimed that Sarawak’s fast-disappearing forests are prompting its timber barons to replicate in other countries the framework of corruption allegedly used in the state’s logging industry. Lukas Straumann, director of Swiss environmental group Bruno Manser Fund, told National Geographic [see link below] that the Sarawak 'model' "which linked corruption, destruction of the environment, and disrespect for indigenous rights, was so successful that Malaysia's timber barons sought to export it” to countries with "very weak governance such as post-civil war Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Guyana in South America, and western Africa".

Read the story in Malay Mail Online. http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/after-lumber-timber-barons-said-to-export-sarawaks-corruption-model

See also:

Can Borneo's Tribes Survive 'Biggest Environmental Crime of Our Times'? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150111-borneo-rainforest-environment-conservation-ngbooktalk/

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