The deforestation and environmental destruction continues to penetrate deeper and deeper into the Central Spine Mountains along logging roads like this one in Kelantan on indigenous Temiar land. Malaysia.
In Malaysia, because most of the deforestation is happening on indigenous peoples' lands, it is not the smallholder oil palm farms that are leading to this latest spasm of logging and oil palm expansion. It is well-funded outside investors who are behind the deforestation and land conversion. //WHITLOWDELANOJAMES_SIPA.59789/Credit:James Whitlow Delano/SIPA/2411131741