Chinese demand wiping out forests in the Solomon Islands: New report

Mongabay
Oct 22, 2018, 8:56 pm282 pts
Logging in the Solomon Islands, a small country of 667,000 people in the South Pacific, is decimating natural forests there at around 19 times the rate considered sustainable, the watchdog NGO Global Witness has found. “It really is quite alarming,” Beibei Yin, a senior campaigner with Global Witness, said…

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