In April this year, Freesoul Real Estate Development was convicted of carrying out unauthorized development on Malolo Island. Freesoul Real Estate Development is charged with three counts of undertaking unauthorized development and failure to comply with a prohibition notice.
Members of the IUCN World Conservation Congress have voted overwhelmingly in support of a moratorium on deep-sea mining, an activity that conservationists say could cause irreversible damage to the ocean.
On July 29, the two-day Wokisok Shark Calling Festival began at Kono village, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea... it's a seasonal rite where fishers paddle out from shore and summon sharks with noise and motion makers...
Over the last month, the Guardian has run a major investigative series examining the extractives industries... in the Pacific.
A seabed mining startup, DeepGreen Metals Inc., has successfully sold itself to investors as a game-changing source of minerals to make electric car batteries that can be obtained in abundance—and at great profit—while minimizing the environmental destruction of mining on land.
Environmental damage and lawlessness is obvious in parts of Small Malaita where logging operation is currently active as witnessed by this paper in visit to a logging operation site, Tuesday this week.
The Kiribati island survived droughts due to sacred caves that captured rainfall but rampant phosphate extraction ruined this precious resource...The last decent rain on Banaba was more than a year ago.
Millions of tonnes of minerals, fish and timber are extracted from Pacific island nations each year, generating massive profits for foreign multinationals.
There is perhaps nowhere in the Pacific where the costs of extractive industries are as heartbreakingly clear as Rennell Island. The island, a tiny dot in the vast South Pacific that lies at the southern tip of Solomon Islands, is home to a few thousand people. And it’s starkly divided.
Landowners of Nukuma’anu in east Rennell, Renbel Province, claim a logging craft that drifted from west of the island landed on their shoreline last month, causing extensive damages to marine life in their bay.
