BY MYRNE LIVETT DEPUTY Secretary Technical, Michael Ho’ota has admitted that the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock officers are not able to reach out to rural communities in the country due to weak logistics support and not enough funding. The…
BY LESLEY FOINAGWA MORE than ten coconut farmers in the West Kwaio region of Malaita province have earlier this year received tools from their Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) for Ward 28, Hon. Clodio Teifi. The plantation tools consist of…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU THE United Nations Development Programme in partnership with Global Environment Facility Programme has recently awarded Ahetaha Water Conservation Association in East Are’are with a series of small grant projects. With respect to the delivery of the small…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU FOIROBO Tribal Biodiversity Conservation Association in North East Malaita, Malaita province has recently welcomed and celebrated a milestone project aimed to protect their forest as a solution to the effects of Climate Change. In a ceremony to…
The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) convened the second meeting of the Bina Harbour Tuna Processing Plant (BHTPP) Project Technical Working Group (TWG) on Tuesday 02 August 2022. The Bina Harbour Tuna Processing Plant Project is a government…
BY MYTNE LIVETT OFFICIALS of the Community Led Total Sanitation program under the Guadalcanal Council of Women have raised a series of health trigger awareness to communities residing in five wards on Central Guadalcanal that are still practicing open defecation…
BY MYRNE LIVETT DEPUTY Director Project of Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, McDonnell Hiva has expressed concern over the lack of technical and advisory services to farmers across Guadalcanal and blamed the provincial agricultural extension officers for not precisely doing…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU AHETAHA Water Conservation Association in East Are’are, Malaita province has recently welcomed and celebrated a milestone project aimed to improve the livelihood of their community. In a ceremony to mark the handing over of a small grant…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU THE greatest challenge faced by the Zoko tribal landowners in South Choiseul, Choiseul Province in the Solomon Islands today is the increasing rate of environmental damage and forest encroachment on their land due to commercial logging. In…
BY JOY OFASIA A new environmental learning centre for the natural environment was launched earlier last week at the Botanical garden office. Speaking to the Sunday Isles paper, the Project coordinator of the Learning and Ecological Activities Foundation for Children,…
BY MYRNE LIVETT SMALL-scale semi-subsistence farming remains a common practice that sustains the livelihood of most people in Central Guadalcanal. Recently, Isles Media interviewed Freddie Nahum Maeni 52, one of a hard-working rural semi-subsistence farmers of Mataruka village in the…
A National Workshop on the Convention of International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) and sustainable wildlife management in Solomon Islands was successfully convened by the MECDM through Environment & Conservation Division with its key stakeholders…