Drying laundry.
Tepeket Agan in his hut in the rainforest. ”I fear the loggers.”
Despite the modest yield, Peng Megut clears land to plant rice. Farming is proof of settlement.
Peng Megut and his sons on their way to check on the loggers.
For Peng Megut and his group the new maps are an important weapon in their
struggle against the loggers.
The meat of the python is much appreciated.
Peng Megut and family pack up their belongings; they are moving on.
A family of settled Penans and their house. Despite the benefits of modernity, they have few prospects for the future, and little money.
Left: Udi with a male Argus pheasant. The beautiful feathers can be worth money. Right: Peng and son Ulen at the foot of a strangler fig.
The Lee Ling company‘s reloading point halfway between Long Tevenga and
Limbang.
Settled Penans from Long Mera‘an sell meat from babui (bearded pigs) that they have hunted for 8 Ringgits a kilo (circa CHF1.90).
Peng Megut and Tepeket Agan off for an early hunt. They are among the last
remaining seminomadic Penans.
Children at Ba Peresek bathe in the river of the same name.
Peng‘s family at breakfast: ”The rainforest is our supermarket. It gives us everything we need in life.”
Séti Guman with her baby daughter Lady.
Méri Peng and her daughter Yonani in their forest home.
The destruction of the rainforest in Borneo is threatening the traditional way of life of the Penan, a nomad tribe, in Borneo.
In the book "Doomed Paradiseexternal link", Swiss photographer Tomas Wüthrich illustrates the way of life in the jungle, deforestation, and the influence of the outside world.
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