Logging is corrupting these islands. One village fights back—and wins. The Solomon Islands is being stripped bare by foreign logging companies, in some cases acting illegally.

Another logging company, Solomon Islands-based Tufoal Timber, allegedly spent SI$236,000 ($29,822) in allowances to government officials and security personnel for their attendance at a timber ...

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 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.

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 ...

Logging is a major export earner for Solomon Islands. ( Supplied: Jino Hanz ) Hanz Jino says his fellow villagers have lodged a legal appeal against the decision to issue Domavola with a ...

Logging roads. In 2011, the Solomon Islands’ Ministry of Finance suggested that if logging activities continued at the pace they were ongoing, the country’s natural forests would be exhausted ...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele agreed. ... but “there needs to be a serious awareness about the impacts of what’s happening in the logging industry to the marine environment. ...

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 ...

IGWA, Solomon Islands, April 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Jessica Jacinta was just a child when loggers first arrived in the forest a few miles from her Solomon Islands village of Igwa. Soon ...