The Solomon Islands is being stripped bare by foreign logging companies, in some cases acting illegally. A community takes action to preserve its future. A logging road leads up to the main camp ...

The Solomon Islands has more than 2.2 million hectares (5.4 million acres) of forest covering about 80 percent of its land area, which is spread over some 990 islands.

The logging industry is loosely regulated in the Solomon Islands, and companies regularly encroach into areas without licenses to fell, said Chris Bone of New Zealand-based advocacy group OceansWatch.

A group of residents of Nende Island in the Solomon Islands claim corrupt government practices allowed a logging company to get a license to log the island’s primary forests, as well as cropland.

The Solomon Islands is the biggest exporter, after Papua New Guinea, of round logs to China, ... Logging ravaging the Solomon Islands' forests. Date. 2019-05-25 01:11:06 ...

They are logging zones, and in Solomon Islands they are everywhere. For the developing country, it is a catch 22: Logging is its lifeblood; the country's biggest export and a source of income for ...

Reports suggest Solomon Islands is logging its forrests at unsustainable rates. (ABC News: Mannar Levo) As well as the obvious environmental impact, on the ground in logging camps across the ...

With the Solomon Islands implementing a large public investment programme and facing declining logging revenue, fiscal reform will be vital to managing debt levels and securing hard-fought ...

Solomon Islands is the Pacific region's largest legal commercial exporter of wildlife for the exotic pet trade - a ...

VANGUNU, Solomon Islands (WKRC) - An ultra-rare gigantic rat that's rarely ever seen by humans has finally been caught on camera. The critically-endangered Uromys Vika giant rat, which is one of ...

But logging has long been a big part of the economy of the Solomon Islands, the 12th largest exporter of rough wood in the world, ...