Pacific rain forests
Sir, —An initiative from New Zealand (August 5), to help our island neighbours fight to preserve their dwindling forests — typically owned by the villagers themselves and not by central Government — is surely welcome. In Australia, a conservation organisation to campaign on behalf of rain forest areas was formed in 1980. Its world rain forest action network now involves over 3000 people, active individually in some 80 countries. For several years the network has been promoting forest conservation in the Solomon Islands, and a branch is presently being established in Fiji. The main island hardwood exporters are Papua New Guinea, the Solomons, Fiji and Western Samoa. At the current rate of "plunder” by 12 logging and 57 milling companies, the forests of the Solomons could be destroyed by 2000. Meanwhile, slash-and-burn farming is also on the increase. The challenge is formidable. What will be the future of the shining cuckoo? — Yours, etc. ERIC BENNETT. Wellington, August 7, 1986. P
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