ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with narrowly outside Marovo, with a review of the reforestation programme on Kolobangara, and how it is managed today. However, from a very different, botanical point of view the logging in the Solomons – even that on Vangunu – is not clearfelling, and to some extent it therefore mimics a natural process of disturbance. It is clear that local perspectives on reforestation focus on direct utility as well as on observations about different trees' suitability in terms of the land available for planting. The Kolobangara outgrowers movement should perhaps be seen as an attempt by Kolobangara islanders to reassert their claims to some patches of land to which they want to obtain, and maintain, undisputed title in future. To an even greater extent than the North New Georgia proposals of Kolombangara Forest Plantations Ltd., the Emas scheme would impact directly on Marovo Lagoon, both environmentally and socially.
