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Video: Borneo tribe in peril

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 Logging puts Borneo tribe in peril 
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The Penan tribe of northern Borneo has spent hundreds of years living in the rainforest, hunting, fishing and using the trees for shelter and medicine.

But as logging by large corporations threaten the area with deforestation, the tribes’ way of life is being destroyed.

Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reports on the human cost of the rainforest’s destruction.

 
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