One of the most explosive books ever written about forest destruction and corruption in the logging business.
Environment News Service, 3 November 2014
One of Japan's most influential mass media reviews the recent Japanese edition of Money Logging
Chris Lang, The Ecologist, 24 December 2014
The Star (Malaysia), 25 September 2014
The Malaysian Insider, 30 October 2014
By John Bertelsen, Asia Sentinel, 09 January 2015
One of the most explosive books ever written about forest destruction and corruption in the logging business.
As mafia stories go, this one has it all: fraud, ill gotten riches, intrigue, hidden loot, violence, privileged family, ruined lives of others – and a godfather. But this plot bears a unique twist, for the godfather is the head of government, and the bounty is more than 100,000 square kilometres of virgin forest.
By Rowena Dela Rosa Yoon, Asian Correspondent, 31 March 2015
Malaysian publisher Gerakbudaya runs Bahasa Melayu version of "Money Logging" by Lukas Straumann. Read a short summary here
Mongabay, 5 November 2014
By Ghui, The Online Citizen, Singapore, 19 January 2015
By Peter Bosshard, Huffington Post, 19 December 2014
By Simon Worrall for National Geographic
Published January 11, 2015
Review by Clare O'Beara, Goodreads, 20 August 2015
One of the most comprehensive and brutally honest investigations into the intrigues of the Malaysian and international timber Mafia.
Taib Mahmud began life as a carpenter’s son. Today his personal fortune is $14 billion. For five decades he has dominated corporate and political life in the East Malaysian state of Sarawak, orchestrating what can only described as the systematic rape of Sarawak’s rainforests and its indigenous peoples. In the homeland of the...
In thrilling chapters historian Lukas Straumann gives the portrait of a clan of kleptocrats, who, through the granting of timber concessions and export licenses, have managed to become billionaires.
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Read this book and weep. But then get angry.
Money Logging fascinates and enrages at the same time.
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