Safeguarding nature in one area can displace harmful activities, such as illegal logging or mining, into another, a phenomenon known as leakage or spillover; but how big is the problem?
Environmental damage and lawlessness is obvious in parts of Small Malaita where logging operation is currently active as witnessed by this paper in visit to a logging operation site, Tuesday this week.
Investigations have exposed there has been illegal logging activities in Vanuatu from 2017 to 2019, according to the Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI)into Illegal Logging, William Nasak.
Tubi is a rare tree species found only in two provinces in the Solomons group: Isabel, where Korona is; and Choiseul, to the country’s west...For the people of Isabel, Tubi is a tree of significant value that holds a special place in their culture and belief system...Locals referred to it as the
A group of concerned forest resource owners from Shortlands and Choiseul is making an appeal to the Governor General Sir David Vunagi.
While a Commission of Inquiry into the matters relating to illegal logging activities in Vanuatu was established last month, an inquiry was also undertaken three years ago in 2017 by a former officer in the Forestry Department following a request from the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock,
The director of a logging company, Sunrise Investment Limited had been fined $50,000 to the state on Wednesday for harvesting Tubi trees in Isabel.
The Forestry Corporation of New South Wales could face more than $1m in fines for the alleged illegal logging of trees in protected areas, including koala habitat, in the state’s north.
The Makira Ulawa Provincial Government has decided to temporarily suspend Felling and Logging Export Licenses for five logging companies because they have been operating illegally in the province... all logging operators who include Licensees and Contractors must settle their outstandin
Water supplies in the Solomon Islands capital, Honiara, are being increasingly affected by logging upstream from the catchment. Click on the link below to read the full article.
