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Securing the future, an alternative plan for Solomon Island forests and economy Enlarge image

Securing the future: An alternative plan for Solomon Island forests and economy.

April 25, 2008

The Solomon Islands forests are in crisis. The International Monetary Fund recently predicted a rapid collapse of logging, with all commercial natural forests cut down by 2014. The environmental, financial, economic and social impacts of this will be serious. The report, Securing the future, presents an alternative plan for Solomon Island forests and economy.

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How the palm oil industry is cooking the climate

November 08, 2007

This report shows how food, cosmetic and biofuel industries drive the destruction of peat lands and rainforests that contributes to climate change.

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Greenpeace activists abseiled off the top of the Crowne Plaza hotel in Port Moresby, where delegates were gathering for the start of the 42nd International Tropical Timber Organization's (ITTO) committee meeting. The activists unfurled a banner which read "ITTO Stop Forest Destruction". Unless something is done now to stop wholesale forest destruction there may be nothing left to save. Enlarge image

Achieving the ITTO Objective 2000 and Sustainable Forest Management in Papua New Guinea

May 29, 2007

Full report of the Diagnostic Mission

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Face in the crowd beneath the Crowne Plaza. Activists abseiled off the top of the Crowne Plaza hotel in Port Moresby, where delegates were gathering for the start of the 42nd International Tropical Timber Organization's (ITTO) committee meeting. The activists unfurled a banner which read "ITTO Stop Forest Destruction". Unless something is done now to stop wholesale forest destruction there may be nothing left to save. Enlarge image

Achieving the ITTO Objective 2000 and Sustainable Forest Management in Papua New Guinea

May 07, 2007

Executive summary of the Report of the Diagnostic Mission

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A loader piles logs along the coast of Biak Island in Papua. This picture is taken from the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, which sailed into Papua to highlight the destruction of the Paradise Forests, the last ancient forests in the Asia Pacific region. The ancient forests of Indonesia are being destroyed faster than any other forests on Earth, fuelled by demands from the European Union, US, Japan and China. Enlarge image

Merbau's Last Stand briefing paper

April 17, 2007

How industrial logging is driving the destruction of the Paradise Forests of Asia Pacific

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Sharing the blame

March 28, 2006

China’s hunger for wood consumption is reshaping the global wood market and trade.

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The Untouchables

January 01, 2004

"The untouchables - Rimbunan Hinjau's (RH) world of forest crime and political patronage" report focuses on the impacts the company is having on timber operations in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Equatorial Guinea, Russia, New Zealand, Soloman Islands and Vanuatu.

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Partners in Crime

March 01, 2002

"Partners in Crime" profiles the scandalous Kiunga-Aiambak Road Project as one example of what is going wrong in Papua New Guinea’s forests.

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Caught Between Two Worlds

January 01, 2001

Describes the problems large-scale industrial enterprises like logging and plantations cause for families and communities in the Solomon Islands. The report reinforces the imporatance of village based development in the rebuilding of the nation.

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Islands Adrift

March 01, 1999

Under pressure from the recent collapse of Asian log prices, governments throughout the Pacific are reexamining their approach to managing their forests. Such a review is timely – past forest policies, although they may have generated critical government revenue, also resulted in environmental damage and social dislocation and unrest.

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