Paradise Lost: Solomon Islands under threat from logging | Global Witness
▻https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/forests/paradise-lost
Our new investigation, using detailed research, satellite imagery, drone photography and trade data, conclusively shows that tropical timber across the Solomon Islands is being harvested on an unsustainable scale, and that much of the activity driving this environmental destruction is at high risk of being illegal.
We mapped all the logging roads in the country and found that they cover a distance twice the length of China’s Yangtze River, despite the Solomon Islands being 338 times smaller than China.
Seven maps that explain logging in the Solomon Islands
▻https://www.maphubs.com/single-post/2018/11/06/Seven-maps-that-explain-logging-in-the-Solomon-Islands