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Ecotimber sawmill demonstration at the Greenpeace Global Forest Rescue Station, Lake Murray, PNG. Volunteers set up the rescue station at the invitation of the Lake Murray landowners to aid them in boundary marking and ecoforestry.
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The hardwood carried out of the Paradise Forests by
ecoforestry workers is called ecotimber. Greenpeace helps high
quality, beautiful ecotimber from Solomon Islands to external markets,
including Australia and New Zealand.
Ecotimber is milled from hardwood species Pacific mahogany/koilo (Callophyllum), dillenia (Dillenia salomonensis) and Taun (Pometia pinnata). It can be used for joinery, floorboards, benchtops, decking, panelling and furniture.
Greenpeace is helping communities develop a similar program in Lake Murray, Papua New Guinea.
The Solomon Islands ecoforestry program has trained 56 landowning groups. Thanks to their ecologically responsible industry, the communities (numbering approximately 14,600 people) now enjoy improved housing, education, transport, communication and health services, as well as protecting their 40,000 hectares of forest from logging.
There are also significant social benefits of ecoforestry, explains Geoff Mamata Dennis of Greenpeace in Solomon Islands, "Better understanding and good relationships between members in the communities is increasingly harmonious.
"This makes people to be more responsible for their own lives. Ecoforestry projects have been successful in providing an alternative solution to large-scale foreign-owned logging operations in the Solomon Islands and more people are becoming aware of the benefits ecoforestry provides."
Ecotimber is milled from hardwood species Pacific mahogany/koilo (Callophyllum), dillenia (Dillenia salomonensis) and Taun (Pometia pinnata). It can be used for joinery, floorboards, benchtops, decking, panelling and furniture.
Greenpeace is helping communities develop a similar program in Lake Murray, Papua New Guinea.
Social benefits of ecoforestry
The Solomon Islands ecoforestry program has trained 56 landowning groups. Thanks to their ecologically responsible industry, the communities (numbering approximately 14,600 people) now enjoy improved housing, education, transport, communication and health services, as well as protecting their 40,000 hectares of forest from logging.
There are also significant social benefits of ecoforestry, explains Geoff Mamata Dennis of Greenpeace in Solomon Islands, "Better understanding and good relationships between members in the communities is increasingly harmonious.
"This makes people to be more responsible for their own lives. Ecoforestry projects have been successful in providing an alternative solution to large-scale foreign-owned logging operations in the Solomon Islands and more people are becoming aware of the benefits ecoforestry provides."
