A group of residents of Nende Island in the Solomon Islands claim corrupt government practices allowed a logging company to get a license to log the island’s primary forests, as well as cropland.

The South Pacific nation of the Solomon Islands is felling its tropical forests at nearly 20 times a sustainable rate, according to research by an environmental group published on Thursday, driven ...

Mongabay contacted two of the companies vying for logging rights on Nende, Malaysia-based Xiang Lin and Solomon Islands-based Tufoal Timber. Neither responded to requests for comment on the record.

The eight member delegation consists of five private sector timber exporters, two officials from the Solomon Islands Ministry of Forestry and Research and a PHAMA representative.

Solomon Islands currently exports around SBD 23 million (NZ$4 million) of sawn timber to New Zealand each year with the value of the trade having increased significantly over the past 10 years.

With a population of less than 800,000, exports primarily consist of minerals, timber, fish, palm oil and cocoa. The government extends incentives to attract foreign ... which stifles business ...

A description of some of the kingdom’s territory can be found in the book of Kings: “Since King Hiram of Tyre had supplied Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber and gold that he ...

King Solomon is traditionally (and I think, solidly) believed to have been king of the united monarchy of Judah, from c. 970-931 B.C. We don’t have much at all to establish his existence and ...

A 1,600 year old amulet depicting the demon-fighting King Solomon has been found by archaeologists in Turkey, referencing a book banned from the Bible for including themes of dark magic.