Bruno manser fonds

Bruno Manser, a Swiss environmental activist spent many years living with the Penan in the Malaysian federal state of Sarawak on Borneo. He engaged in public activism for rainforest preservation and the human rights of indigenous peoples, which brought him into conflict with the Malaysian government. He founded the Swiss non-governmental organization (NGO) Bruno Manser Fonds in 1991. He disappeared during his last journey to Sarawak in May 2000 and is presumed dead.

After watching a documentary about Bruno Manser’s life I reached out to BMF and offered to do an animation for them. The idea was to show Bruno Manser in the forest. When he disapears his spirits-symbolized by a butterfly-remains with the Penans in their fight to preserve the rainforest.

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