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National Park After Dark

Bruno of Borneo: Gunung Mulu National Park (Part 2)

National Park After Dark

Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian

True Crime, Places & Travel, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Last week we got familiar with Bruno Manser, his early life and what brought him to the island of Borneo. In part 2, we discover just how far he was willing to go to advocate for the protection, the people and places he came to love.For the latest NPAD updates, group travel details, merch and more, follow us on npadpodcast.com and our socials:Instagram: @‌nationalparkafterdarkTikTok: @‌nationalparkafterdarkSupport the show by becoming an Outsider and receive ad free listening, bonus content and more on Patreon or Apple Podcasts. Want to see our faces? Catch full episodes on our YouTube Page!Thank you to this week’s partners!Reel: Use our link and code NPAD to get 30% off your first order plus free shipping.Away: Use our link and start your 100-day trial.Prose: Use our link for a free in-depth hair consultation and 15% off your first order.Apostrophe: Use our link and code NPAD to get for first visit for only $5. For a full list of our sources, visit http://npadpodcast.com/episodes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

>>[music Christian Essene Ragione Association House plays awkwardly drihettilyastropriate in garlic storm tolian poise.

0:18.9

Hello, everyone welcome back to National Park After Dark part two of Bruno

0:24.4

Mansors story in Borneo. Hopefully this week hasn't been too grueling waiting for part two. Yeah, I'm

0:31.2

really excited. I'm glad we're doing this only a couple days after we recorded the first one because it's fresh in your mind

0:37.2

Mm-hmm fresh in mind and I know you want answers. I do I have them for you

0:42.4

Obviously anytime we do a multi-parter we'll do a brief recap

0:46.4

But if you're just jumping on now definitely pause and go back to part one get the full version

0:52.4

But essentially let's catch up to where we were at unless you have anything else to say no catch catch me up refresh me

1:00.9

I'm ready to dive back into the story. Okay, so in part one

1:05.5

We talked about Bruno's early life his experience growing up in Switzerland and what he was doing with the cows and the elves and the cheese and

1:14.5

Cheese and free climbing and all that good stuff and what led him into this new chapter in Borneo

1:21.5

While he was in Borneo he spent years with various different groups of indigenous panon and was beginning to act as kind of like their spokesperson

1:29.5

regarding this huge mounting concern with

1:33.3

logging companies selling large swatches of jungle in the panon territory and

1:40.0

Bruno's advocacy for both the panon and the jungle gained him a lot of notoriety

1:45.5

Which was kind of like a double-edged sword because it was great that he was becoming known

1:50.0

You know throughout Borneo within indigenous communities for his advocacy work and kind of like he's on our side type of thing

1:58.0

But it also got him a lot of negative attention when it came to the Malaysian government and they kind of have him at the moment in their crosshairs

2:06.1

per se because they want him out

2:08.3

He's stirring up a lot of trouble in their eyes because he's putting what they're doing on blast to now a global audience

2:16.7

when it comes to logging and how the mistreatment of the indigenous peoples and things like that

2:22.0

So he's interfering with their money. That's what he's doing exactly

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