Cut now, pay later: Tropical rainforests of the Solomon Islands

Abstract

One of the most serious issues facing humankind at present is the exceedingly rapid destruction of the tropical rainforests. Of most concern, as is presently the case in Solomon Islands, is when logging is neither economically nor ecologically sustainable over the long term.

This same nation was reviewed in the pages of Raw Materials Report in 1983 showing the impact through commercial logging of transnational corporations. Little has changed except the replacement of British and Australian timber companies with those from Malaysia, Indonesia and South Korea.