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"In 1984, Swiss traveler Bruno Manser joined an expedition to the Mulu caves on Borneo, the planet's third largest island. There he slipped into the forest interior to make contact with the Penan, an indigenous tribe of peace-loving nomads living among the Dayak people, the fabled 'Headhunters of Borneo.' Bruno lived for years with the Penan, gaining acceptance as a member of the tribe. However, when commercial logging began devouring the Penan's...
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In 1984, thirty-year-old Bruno Manser visited Borneo for the first time and instantly fell in love with the land and its people. For the next decade and a half, he lived with the Penan tribe in Sarawak, and helped them organize against powerful multinational logging conglomerates attempting to deforest Penan land. The Malaysian government labeled Manser an enemy of the state and placed a bounty on his head. Then, in May 2000, the Swiss activist disappeared...
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