Forestry

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Solomon Islands forestry.
Photographer: URS

Log exports from Solomon Islands and PNG are booming. In Solomon Islands, logging makes up 17 per cent of the economy, 18 per cent of government revenue and 70 per cent of export earnings. However a National Forest Assessment in 2007 concluded that by 2013 there will be no significant stock of natural logs left. Likewise logging in PNG has more than doubled since the moratorium on new licences was lifted in 2001. PNG has been promoting the idea of paying developing countries to avoid deforestation as part of global efforts to mitigate climate change.