MIRI: About 200 Penans have declared 163,000ha of remote jungle in upper Baram, Sarawak, as their peace park to protect their way of life, according to the Swiss-based environmental movement, Bruno Manser Fund (BMF).
In an email to Bernama here Monday, BMF claimed that a declaration ceremony took place at the remote village of Long Ajeng in Baram recently to endorse the creation of the park aimed at conserving the area as a nature reserve as it was the Penan's last remaining primeval jungle.
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