Logging Companies Are Pushing into High-Elevation Forests

Protection from unwanted logging: Lukulobere Tribe celebrate official protected area status for their forest - Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC)

The Babatana Rainforest Conservation Project has yet another protected area under its fold as the Lukulobere Tribe celebrates the official declaration of 563 hectares of forest this week. The declaration event was held in Honiara on 29 July, with a community event in Choiseul to follow. Chief Jeffrey Damusoe Sipuda says this moment “means a lot when reflecting back on our challenges but, finally, we succeeded,” he says. “This milestone has made …

Logging Companies Are Pushing into High-Elevation Forests

By Ben Parfitt – The Tyee On an early April morning this spring, Len Vanderstar drove away from his home in Smithers heading for a distant clearcut. About 20 kilometres out of town, he turned onto a gravel road and began to climb out of the Bulkley Valley toward Babine Mountains Park. About an hour later, he arrived at his destination: a 109-hectare patch of land that had once been a forest of 250-to-300-year-old trees. The forest was now gone a…