Mongabay: In an interview with the Bruno Manser Fond, the new leader of the Malaysian state Sarawak’s People’s Justice Party (PKR), Baru Bian, spoke out against the state government’s plans for mega-dams in the middle of the rainforest, as well as continued rainforest destruction and corruption. Baru, a lawyer by trade, stated that the indigenous communities “very existence and livelihood is being threatened” by the dozen mega-dam projects, which would flood vast areas of rainforest …