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January 19, 2004
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Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia
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Maria Stenzel
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"Shouldering his burden, Lakei Padeng gathers poles to build a shelter deep in Gunung Mulu National Park, a protected swath of rain forest in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo. Of the some 7,000 people of the Penan tribe, Lakei Padeng is one of 300 or fewer who still live in the rain forest. As for the rest, three decades of government-sanctioned logging has nearly destroyed their homeland, forcing them to live in dreary resettlement camps—an even heavier burden to bear."
—From "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine
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