A logged area of former forest between Honiara and the Weather Coast in Guadalcanal, taken from a ...

Accession Number P04223.515
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Dupont, Stephen
Place made Pacific Islands: Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal
Date made 4 November 2003
Conflict Period 2000-2009
Solomon Islands (RAMSI), 2003-2013
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Source credit to Acquired through Australian War Memorial official commission 2003
Description

A logged area of former forest between Honiara and the Weather Coast in Guadalcanal, taken from a New Zealand helicopter, deployed under Operation Rata and participating in the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI). Illegal and uncontrolled logging was one of the major negative social and economic consequences of the decline of government authority in the Solomon Islands, prior to RAMSI’s multi-national policing and military intervention.