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LOGGING INDUSTRY
Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:48 PM
The Kolombangara Island Biodiversity Conservation Association, is rallying support from around Kolombangara Island in the Western province, campaigning to end all logging operations on the Island.
Coordinator of the Association, Ferguson Vagi says logging came to their shores since around 1968 when levers Solomons Limited logged their forest but no tangible development was seen on the Island. He says that after more that forty years the so called development came to their island, destruction seem to be the end result. Mr Vagi says that at the end of the day, landowners still lack the basic necessities in life. He claim that a scientific survey conducted on logging proved that the removal of 60-percent loggable forest encourages canopy. Mr Vagi...
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Economy
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:16 AM
Media officer for Live and Learn Forestry Centre in Solomon Islands, Charles Stennett says the attempt to export the hardwood tree, known in Isabel as "tubi", as round logs shows a lack of respect for government laws.
Mr Stennett says tubi trees are a restricted species in the country under current legislation, they can be milled but not exported as round logs. He says the exportation of tubi trees as round logs shows ignorance and a no care attitude from land owners and some government officials for the rule of law. Mr Stennett says that it is suspicious why some government officers have allowed documents to be passed through the system for cutting and exportation of tubi as round log. He says the tubi tree is an endemic species in the Solomon Islands and plays an...
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Economy
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:43 PM
The Solomon Islands Government is working on a new Forestry Bill in efforts to reduce the level of logging by 25 percent.
Minister of Forestry, Job Duddley Tausinga said Ministry officials are currently drafting the bill, which is expected to be tabled in the July sitting of Parliament. The government has acknowledged that the current unsustainable rate of logging in the country is a result of the inadequate forestry legislation governing logging activities. Mr Tausinga said governments' can always put in place sound forestry policies but the existing Forestry Act always pose challenges. "Currently we do not have the power to enforce any policy that would require us to cut the...
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Economy
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:59 AM
Forest resource owners must be encouraged to do downstream processing, and at the same time replant logged land areas so as to minimise the disasterous effects of unsustainable timber harvesting.
This is the message that the Minister for Forestry and Research Hon Job Duddley Tausinga emphasised as he took delivery of portable sawmills and reforestation equipments funded by the Taiwan (ROC) government. "The rate of timber harvesting is at an alarming rate, and in 2007 it stood at 1.5 million cubic meters, which is four times the annual allowable rate" and is therefore "detrimental to the economic well-being of the state", Mr Tausinga said. Mr Tausinga received the sawmills and equipment from Taiwan's Ambassador to Solomon Islands, His Excellency George Chan, on...
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Economy
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:17 AM
A Greenpeace team has been documenting the conditions in three Papua New Guinea (PNG) logging concessions revealing the negative effects logging is having on life in the area.
According to the Greenpeace Australia Pacific Blog, the Greenpeace team spent two weeks documenting life and conditions in three Papua New Guinea (PNG) logging concessions, where they 'visited remote villages in Gulf and Western Provinces where logging companies Rimbunan Hijau (RH) and Turama Forest Industries (TFI, a Rimbunan Hijau group company) are felling ancient rainforests and abusing their workers'. According to the report, the local people in these areas spoke of abuses committed by these logging companies including destroying sacred sites, breaking promises of development,...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 2:12 PM
It has been revealed that logging companies operating in the Isabel Province target unfortunate families, luring them with money in exchange for their daughters.
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Friday, September 05, 2008 2:40 PM
Logging companies operating in Makira and Ulawa Province owes the Province two million dollars in taxes.
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Monday, September 01, 2008 10:57 AM
According to Radio New Zealand International, the Government of Isabel Province has been threatening to cancel the business licenses of logging companies in Isabel, if their outstanding debts are not settled.
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Friday, August 22, 2008 2:38 PM
Logging company, Eagon Pacific Plantation Limited has appealed to both local and overseas investors operating in Solomon Islands to follow in its footsteps by engaging in manufacturing processes.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 4:28 PM
It has been revealed that the Ministry of Forests has created a Monitoring Division to monitor logging activities within the Solomon Islands
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Monday, June 16, 2008 7:13 AM
Transparency Solomon Islands (TSI) is disappointed that the Government has backed down and given in to logging companies as it has not increased the Determined Value of logs as has been gazetted.
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:29 AM
The government is urged to stand firm on its commitment of increasing the determined price on logs
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Monday, June 02, 2008 7:29 AM
The Minister of Forestry, Sir Allan Kemakeza clarified a number of issues relating to the recent increase in the Determined Value Schedule (DVS) for export logs
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Friday, May 30, 2008 7:23 AM
Transparency Solomon Islands (TSI) commends the Government and Minister of Forests, Sir Allan Kemakeza, for standing firm in their decision to increase the determined value for logs - a new government policy announced recently
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:00 AM
Thousands of logging workers would lose their jobs if the Labour Department accepts application for redundancies submitted by about sixteen logging companies, according to the Secretary of the Solomon Forest Association (SFA), Kaipua Tohibangu
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:33 AM
Government Fails to Use Timber Levy on Reforestation
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Monday, May 26, 2008 8:49 AM
Logging Threats Serious: Kingmele
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:46 PM
Logging Companies Accused of Robbing Solomon Islands
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:54 PM
No Log Exports: Loggers Protest
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:55 PM
Sogavare Calls on Government to Address Depleted Forests
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:48 AM
Government Identifies Three Key Sectors to Take Over From Logging
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:40 AM
Government Puts Measures to Protect Forests
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Friday, April 11, 2008 12:43 PM
Setting the 'Determined Price' for Logs is Not a Job for MPs: TSI
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:34 AM
Rini Warns of Forest Revenue Decrease
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Monday, January 07, 2008 10:35 AM
Solomon Islands Logging One of the Worst in the World
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:58 PM
Police Settle Land Issue Dispute Peacefully
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Friday, September 14, 2007 10:05 AM
Forest Harvest Rates, Three Times Sustainable Level
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 7:31 AM
Another Logging Company Accused of Abuse
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:08 AM
PM on Sexual Abuse Report
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Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:51 PM
Women Call for Suspension of Logging License
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Friday, July 27, 2007 10:03 AM
Logging Companies Contribute to Rise in Commercial Sex
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:32 AM
Rural Man Questions Logging in Relation to B.U.A
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 7:45 AM
Logging exceeds sustainable levels
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