China’s huge demand for timber is stripping one of the world’s largest remaining areas of pristine tropical forests, an environmental group has warned.
Trees are being felled at 20 times the sustainable rate in the Solomon Islands, a South Pacific archipelago roughly the size of Belgium, according to a new report by the US group Global Witness.
More than 3m cubic metres of logs were exported last year from the Solomon Islands, which together with neighbouring Papua New Guinea supplies about half of China’s tropical log imports.
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