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Borneo logging destroying Penan tribe |
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Deforestation
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We all know logging in Borneo is causing huge environmental damage plus
destroying the diversity of flora and fauna but it also is displacing
ethnic minority tribes such as the Penan, who live the traditional
hunter-gatherer way and cannot survive with the continued destruction
of primary (and secondary) rainforest.
The BBC series Tribe
recently highlighted the problems. The Penan live in make-shift rattan
huts and every few weeks will relocate, often to go in search of new
sago plants, which forms a large percentage of their diet. Their diet
is also made up of local wild animals such as frogs, squirrels and
boar, most of which are killed using the highly skilled blowpipes, a
thin carved piece of wood dipped in poisonous tree sap. The destruction
of native forest is decreasing the amount of forest dramatically for
the forest people to live in and find food. Even the water is becoming
undrinkable. The soil leaches into the river when trees near the
riverbank are felled. The ground is no longer stable once their are no
living trees for the soil to cling to.
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Fruit picking in rural Western Australia |
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Work -
Work in Australia and New Zealand
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"Our first day was rather surreal. We had to get up at the crack of dawn to get to Dwellingup, in rural Western Australia. Then we were saddled with baskets that strap to your front that you fill up with various varieties of fruit.
Our first job was cherry-picking (no jokes please!) The morning was spent picking hundreds of cherries off trees and into our baskets, and then unloading them, very gently, into crates. The supervisor (whom we nicknamed the fruit naziť) shouted at us if we didn't handle the fruit like baby birds. The afternoon was spent next to conveyor belt sorting our gently-picked cherries into sizes.
The first day was really good fun - the sun was out, there were other backpackers and you could chat freely or listen to music. By the end of the first week, we were bored silly and by the end of the first month, it was a struggle to go into work but overall it was a unique experience, we made some good friends, ate free fruit and padded our pockets with dollars."
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