Unlicensed, unauthorized logging part of litany
HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Solomon Star, April 24, 2010) – SOLOMON Islanders and their government have been surviving on monies derived from illegal logging activities since logging came to the country more than 20 years ago.
Logging revenue has been the main foreign income earner for the country in the last 20 years.
But estimates say this will be no longer the case after 2012.
The Solomon Islands Diagnostic Trade Integration Study Report 2009 launched recently explicitly described what is meant by illegal logging in its forestry chapter.
The report says many logging operations here were carried out illegally.
"Illegal logging takes place when timber is harvested, transported, bought or sold in violation of national and or international laws," the report said.
It spells out what can be described as illegal logging.
They include logging protected species, duplication of felling...