(BASEL, SWITZERLAND, Oct 22, 2014: A 300-page non-fiction
paperback on Borneo logging will be launched on Nov 3 on the occasion of the
50th session of the International Tropical Timber Council in Yokohama, Japan.
The book, entitled Money Logging: On the Trail of the
Asian Timber Mafia, reads like a thriller and is authored by historian and
campaigner Lukas Straumann, who is also the executive director of the Bruno
Manser Fund, a Switzerland-based advocacy group closely connected to the plight
of Malaysia’s indigenous peoples.
One of the book’s aims is to expose the destruction of
Sarawak's forests and the issuances of timber licenses to crony companies
linked to political figures.
The book is a wake-up call to the international community
on the exploitation of Sarawak's natural resources over three decades.
Money Logging will be launched with a ten-city publicity
blitz that will start in Yokohama, Japan, and lead the author to Canada, the
United States, the United Kingdom England, Belgium and Switzerland.
"We aim to present the book at the Western cities
where illicit proceeds from the
destruction of the Borneo rainforests are said to have been reinvested“, said
Straumann.
Sarawak, a Malaysian state in Borneo, has long been the
world’s largest exporter of tropical timber but log production has fallen
significantly in recent years.
Pre-publishing sales of Money Logging are exceeding expectations.
Orders can still be placed at www.money-logging.org.
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