BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI AHETAHA Water Conservation Association recently completed a four-day CBRM awareness, concrete weight construction and floater deployment along 2.4km of coastal demarcation of conservation area. Reason to carry out the demarcation is to protect dugongs, green turtles,…
A TEAM from the Climate Change Division (CCD) of the Ministry of Environment Climate Change Disaster Management and Meteorology (MECDM) have just returned after completing a two-week-long Integrated Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment in the Reef Islands of the Temotu Province.…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI AHETAHA Water Conservation Association (AWCA) with Solomon Islands Rangers Association have held a two-day rangers training for conservation groups within Aiaisi ward 19 in East Are’Are, Malaita province. The training was held at Ahetaha training centre…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI AUKI Market Vendors Association (AMVA) will work with communities in and around Auki on phase II of their waste management advocacy campaign. Coordinator of the Waste Management campaign under AMVA, Mr Joel Reverly told this paper…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU The coastal community of Nagoibo on Santa Isabel Province in Solomon Islands is one of the most vulnerable places in the country to the impacts of climate change. It is threatened by rising sea levels and experts…
Wale warns Mining path to follow Logging misfortunes By Alfred Pagepitu THE Leader of Opposition, Matthew Wale has warned that the shift by former logging companies into the mining sector will perpetuate the exploitative economy that impoverishes the large majority…
THE Government through the Water Resources Division at the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification (MMERE) has resumed the vital Drilling Services Programme. The previous Programme was closed during the height of the ethnic tension when all drilling machineries…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU Communities in Solomon Islands are worried that lack of effective monitoring mechanisms and safe environmental practices by stakeholders are preventing authorities from understanding the full extent of environmental damage brought about by the rampant logging industry in the country.…
By EDDIE OSIFELO TWO ministries are working together with international immigration to come up with relocation guidelines. Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Meteorology and Ministry of Lands, Housing and Survey are working on this course following concerns…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI CONSERVATION groups in East Are Are recently completed a two-day legal awareness workshop at Ahetaha in Manawai, East Are Are. The workshop was facilitated by Project Coordinator of Solomon Islands Environmental Law Association (SIELA), Ms Kenya…
