Bruno Manser born 25 August 1954 in Basel, Switzerland was an environmental activist. He was well-known in Switzerland for his public activism for rainforest preservation and the protection of indigenous peoples Bruno Manser is missing and presumed dead. Manser, 47 was last seen in May 2000 in the isolated village of Bario in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, close to the border with Indonesia. His last known communication is a letter mailed to his girlfriend from the village of Bario, in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak, where he had returned to meet the nomadic Penan he lived with for so long.
Manser is still regarded by the Penan as somewhat of an idol, named "Lakei Penan" (Penan Man). A man that united them and has been accused by the government of arranging numerous blockades of logging roads and having some positive effect by protesting about the alleged inhumanity of the tropical timber industry.
After search expeditions proved fruitless, a civil court in Basel ruled on March 10, 2005 that Manser be considered dead .Manser's unpopularity with Sarawak's government and the logging companies such as Samling Plywood, who have been known to use intimidation and violence as scare tactics have prompted suspicions surrounding his death, none of which have yet been proved.
Anonymous information concerning the presumed killing or the whereabouts of Bruno Manser still can be sent to bm.
In our opinion, Bruno Manser has the right to stop the government to defend from change because his action is to help the Penan from losing their home. Confronted with the rampant destruction of the rainforest by the timber industry, he helped the Penan to resist further intrusion by the loggers and became the international mouthpiece for the threatened people of the primeval forest. Today, the Penan's future hangs precariously on Taibadherence to the Magoh Biosphere Reserve. It was Bruno Manser who, a few months before leaving for Asia, told Online reports (Switzerland) that Taib Mahmud was "personally responsible for nearly the whole area of the rainforests of Sarawak becoming one big field of destruction in the matter of one generation". Whether or not the Chief Minister will ever realize the irreversible damage to the environment and the livelihood of the Penan caused by logging is anyone's guess.
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Manser is still regarded by the Penan as somewhat of an idol, named "Lakei Penan" (Penan Man). A man that united them and has been accused by the government of arranging numerous blockades of logging roads and having some positive effect by protesting about the alleged inhumanity of the tropical timber industry.
After search expeditions proved fruitless, a civil court in Basel ruled on March 10, 2005 that Manser be considered dead .Manser's unpopularity with Sarawak's government and the logging companies such as Samling Plywood, who have been known to use intimidation and violence as scare tactics have prompted suspicions surrounding his death, none of which have yet been proved.
Anonymous information concerning the presumed killing or the whereabouts of Bruno Manser still can be sent to bm.
In our opinion, Bruno Manser has the right to stop the government to defend from change because his action is to help the Penan from losing their home. Confronted with the rampant destruction of the rainforest by the timber industry, he helped the Penan to resist further intrusion by the loggers and became the international mouthpiece for the threatened people of the primeval forest. Today, the Penan's future hangs precariously on Taibadherence to the Magoh Biosphere Reserve. It was Bruno Manser who, a few months before leaving for Asia, told Online reports (Switzerland) that Taib Mahmud was "personally responsible for nearly the whole area of the rainforests of Sarawak becoming one big field of destruction in the matter of one generation". Whether or not the Chief Minister will ever realize the irreversible damage to the environment and the livelihood of the Penan caused by logging is anyone's guess.
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