Predictions that forest resources in the Solomon Islands will be wiped out by 2015 have been made by the Australian foreign ministry’s Economic Analytical Unit.
A study says forest resources will run out by 2015 if timber is cut at an annual rate of 600,000m3 – a figure exceeded by 100,000m3 last year alone.
Most of the harvest is exported as round logs to Asia, with little processing carried out in the Solomons.
