In November 2021, Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, was wracked by riots that left three people dead and the city’s Chinatown in ashes.
Gary Juffa, governor of Papua New Guinea’s Oro province, is one of the country’s most outspoken critics of the logging industry.
A sting operation is underway in the Western division to clamp down on illegal logging and sawmilling companies. The Ministry of Environment held a roundtable discussion with the Logging and Sawmilling Sector to iron out issues affecting the sector.
There are claims in Papua New Guinea that some of the country's banks are implicated in illegal logging and the human rights abuses that plague the sector. The NGOs Act Now and Jubilee Australia say if banks lend to loggers who are operating illegally, that would make them criminally complic
Papua New Guinea has joined 124 other world countries, among them China and United States of America, who signed an agreement to ban logging entirely by 2030 at the Conference of the Parties (UNFCCC COP26) in Glasgow.
A proposed conservation area in northwestern Papua New Guinea has experienced a substantial surge in deforestation-related alerts, according to satellite data from the University of Maryland.
The people of West Coast Santo have rallied against a proposal by a Chinese-owned logging company on their land. Director of Forestry Department, Rexon Vira, explained a Chinese company, Vanuatu Forestry Product Limited, is interested in clearing forests and making wood chips.
Kolombangara is one of more than 900 islands that make up the Solomon Islands, where timber is a major export and logging continues at 19 times the sustainable rate.
Found along North America’s west coast, often dozens of kilometers inland, marbled murrelets’ nesting habitat is imperiled by commercial timber harvesters, who covet the valuable trees in these highly productive coastal rainforests...Now, scientists from Oregon State University (OSU) ar
The Makira Ulawa Provincial (MUP) Government has agreed on two resolutions to suspend two logging companies from their logging operations in Makira with immediate effect.
