Logging on heights banned
Any logging operation or commercial activities conducted at an altitude higher than four hundred metres is illegal. Caretaker Minister of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and…
Category: <span>Logging</span>
Foreign loggers are sexually exploiting Solomon Islanders
A WorldFish survey on the impacts of logging on food security, fisheries and well-being in Malaita indicated, very little has been done or nothing has been…
One dead, two hospitalised from Fish poisoning
A man is dead and two others have been hospitalised after eating poisonous fish at the Luti Logging Camp in South Choiseul. It is believed they…
\’Not our responsibility\’: Solomon Forest Association says logging impacts an issue for landowners
The President of the Solomon Forest Association (SFA) says the devastating impacts of the logging industry in Solomon Islands are not its responsibility. Despite the social…
LOGGING COMPANIES OWED MALAITA MILLIONS
Logging companies operating in Malaita province have owed more than $4 million worth of provincial revenue to the province. Malaita Premier Hon. Peter Chanel Ramohia told…
INDIGENOUS ADVOCATE LASHED OUT AT LOGGING IN RENBEL
The Solomon Islands Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Advocacy Association (SIIPHRAA) has questioned why national and provincial governments have failed to restrain Samling San Logging Company from…
GOV\’T TIGHTENED LOGGING LICENSES
The Ministry of Forestry and Research will not issue any more felling licenses to newly registered foreign companies intending to carry out logging activities in the…
MALAITA PREMIER CONCERNED OVER MALA-RENBEL RELATIONS
Malaita Provincial Premier, Hon. Peter Chanel Ramohia has raised concerns that relations between Malaita and Rennell/Bellona could be affected by the logging issue in Renbel province.…
GRAVE CONCERNS OVER LOGGING IN NORTHEAST GUADALCANAL
People of North East Guadalcanal are gravely concerned, logging activities in their area have caused unparalleled distraction on their land and crops. Food security is now…
MAN ARRESTED FOR UNLAWFUL WOUNDING IN RENBEL
The Tigoa police in Rennell Bellona province has arrested a man in relation to an unlawful wounding incident at Kagua village, West Rennell over the weekend.…