Yato Conservation Area in East Makira has been declared a “Protected Area” at a landmark event held at provincial capital Kirakira today. This means no logging, mining or other destructive environmental activities will be allowed to take place on the declared area.
“Yato now stands as the largest terrestrial/forest protected area in Solomon Islands,” Karl Kuper, Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology (MECDM) said at today’s ceremony attended by hundreds of villagers and guests.
