Human Writes: Land slides from under the feet of Sarawak's natives

A Penan family of four built this hut in the jungle to be near their child's school.

You’ve probably seen it: An animated Greenpeace video that’s gone viral, after it was used as a Christmas advert by a British supermarket chain, depicting a baby orangutan telling a child how his home is being lost as more and more forests get cleared for plantations.

No doubt orangutans in the wild are on the decline – there are now just 15,000 in all of Borneo according to WWF for Nature. But while cute baby orangutans tug at the heart, there’s been a lot less interest in the real people of the forest losing their land.