A GROUP of Penans, who said their livelihoods were being threatened by ongoing logging operations in the upper Baram River basin, today handed over a petition with over 500 signatures to Sarawak’s Deputy Premier Awang Tengah Ali Hassan, demanding an immediate halt to work in the area. 

Copies of the petition were also handed to Sarawak Forest Department director Hamden Mohammad and Ramon Carrillo of the International Tropical Timber Organisation at the opening of the three-day Asia-Pacific Forest Landscape Restoration Conference in Kuching.