Solomon Islands: Machetes in Hand, Women Join Forces to Fight Logging in Solomon Islands

Apr 8, 2020 | John Beck, Reuters
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IGWA, Solomon Islands - Jessica Jacinta was just a child when loggers first arrived in the forest a few miles from her Solomon Islands village of Igwa. 

Soon, they had cleared large stretches of land so aggressively that it would take decades for trees to recover and leave behind contaminated water sources and ruined agricultural ground, local residents said.