Protestors from two Kayan longhouses, Long Laput and Sungai Dua, formed blockades of the only two logging access roads in the area on July 19. The Kayan are protesting the actions of two companies, Rimbunan Hijau and Shin Yang (Forestry) Plantation, which they claim are conducting logging and nursery activities in the communal customary lands of the two longhouses. The Sungai Dua Headman stated that the companies were conducting their operations near the Kayan water catchment areas and had already encroached on the buffer zone surrounding local bird nest caves.
