U.N Biosphere Reserve also known as the Penan Peace Park is the last remaining intact forest landscape in Sarawak.
U.N Biosphere Reserve also known as the Penan Peace Park is the last remaining intact forest landscape in Sarawak.
Kurau Kusin, headman from Long kidah, refers to the land as a womb of the people: "it is our birthplace and it is the resting place of our dead. They have passed the land and the forest in their natural state to us so that we can get our food in abundance and need not go elsewhere." What the Penan say of their forest homeland, we ourselves must say of the entire earth. It is our birthplace; it is our home. We need our wilderness alive and intact, because it stands apart as a symbol of innocent geography.
Kurau Kusin, headman from Long kidah, refers to the land as a womb of the people: "it is our birthplace and it is the resting place of our dead. They have passed the land and the forest in their natural state to us so that we can get our food in abundance and need not go elsewhere." What the Penan say of their forest homeland, we ourselves must say of the entire earth. It is our birthplace; it is our home. We need our wilderness alive and intact, because it stands apart as a symbol of innocent geography.
"What we say is, this forest, - we want to preserve it, because we have a good life here."
"This land is our origins.
This land is our origins:
The origin of our grandparents.
The origin of our mothers and fathers.
The origin of all those ancestors of ours long ago."
"If a means cannot be found to protect this land, If the ravages of logging are permitted to sweep clean this forest and the remarkably peaceful human beings who know it best, then what chance do we have the resurrect the spirit of our race in more troubled parts of the earth?"
This land is our origins:
The origin of our grandparents.
The origin of our mothers and fathers.
The origin of all those ancestors of ours long ago."
"If a means cannot be found to protect this land, If the ravages of logging are permitted to sweep clean this forest and the remarkably peaceful human beings who know it best, then what chance do we have the resurrect the spirit of our race in more troubled parts of the earth?"
"We ask for help from people all over the world. We are people with a proud culture and way of life that is built on our forest and land. Don't take our forest and culture and dignity away. We thank everyone of thinks of us and helps us, even though you are so far away. It is knowing this that keeps us alive"