Cover; Table of contents; Dedication; Foreword by Mutang Urud; 01 Follow the money; 02 Paradise lost; 03 The white Rajahs; 04 Sarawak's Machiavelli; 05 Blowpipes against bulldozers; 06 Bruno Manser's legacy; 07 Offshore business; 08 Trail of destruction; 09 Green wasteland; 10 Rainforests without corruption; Endnotes; Sarawak chronology; Acknowledgements; Photo credits; Index
Summary
Money Logging investigates what Gordon Brown has called ìprobably the biggest environmental crime of our timesîóthe 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 Taibís familyówith the compli