Corruption drives dealings with logging companies in the Solomon Islands

Mongabay
May 1, 2017, 8:52 am152 pts
This is the second in a two-part series on logging in the Solomon Islands. Read the first part for more discussion on the topic. Several companies are vying for the rights to harvest timber in a far-flung corner of the Solomon Islands. Opponents of the proposed extraction say that the companies are using…

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