French hotel group to review cooperation with Borneo loggers
May 22, 2009
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Following pressure from members of the Penan tribe in Borneo, Europe’s leading hotel chain ACCOR has announced an independent review of the operations of logging company Interhill.
The French company ACCOR is building a hotel complex in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, in cooperation with Interhill. The Penan have been protesting for twenty years against Interhill’s destruction of their forests.
Seventy-seven Penan signed a letter in April to ACCOR CEO Gilles Pélisson. ‘Interhill is extracting timber from our forests against our declared will and without our consent,’ says the letter. ‘Without our forest, we, the Penan, cannot survive.’
Swiss organization Bruno Manser Fund is campaigning for ACCOR to withdraw from its project with Interhill.
Sign the petition against ACCOR’s cooperation with Interhill
