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Money logging - Geneva book launch

The launch will be held on: Tuesday 5 May 2015, 7 pm Club suisse de la presse, Route de Ferney 106, Geneva

MONEY LOGGING ON THE TRAIL OF THE ASIAN TIMBER MAFIA

Programme:

Welcome by Richard Harvell, Executive Editor, Bergli Books, Basel

Presentation by author Lukas Straumann, Executive Director of the Bruno Manser Fund

Message to the UN from the Borneo rainforest by a Penan delegation from Sarawak, Malaysia

Discussion with Clare Rewcastle, founder of Radio Free Sarawak / Sarawak Report, London

Free admission - author signing to follow

Books will be sold at the event or can be ordered online at www.money-logging.org

 

Money Logging investigates what former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called ‘probably the biggest environmental crime of our times’—the massive destruction of the Borneo rainforest by Malaysian loggers. Historian and campaigner Lukas Straumann goes in search not only of the lost forests and the people who used to call them home, but also the network of criminals who have earned billions through illegal timber sales and corruption. Straumann singles out Abdul Taib Mahmud, current governor of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, as the kingpin of this Asian timber mafia, while he shows that Taib’s family—with the complicity of global financial institutions—have profited to the tune of 15 billion US dollars. Money Logging is a story of a people who have lost their ancient paradise to a wasteland of oil palm plantations, pollution, and corruption—and how they hope to take it back.

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