{"id":248835,"date":"2024-04-15T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/solomon-islands-tribes-sell-carbon-credits-not-their-trees\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T13:21:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T13:21:30","slug":"solomon-islands-tribes-sell-carbon-credits-not-their-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/solomon-islands-tribes-sell-carbon-credits-not-their-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands Tribes Sell Carbon Credits, Not Their Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"article__block article__block--textBlock article__block--drop-cap article__block--drop-cap-w\">\n<p>When head ranger Ikavy Pitatamae walks into the rainforest on Choiseul Island, the westernmost of the nearly 1,000 islands that make up the South Pacific archipelago of Solomon Islands, he surveys it with the heart of a tribal landowner and the eye of a forester.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the way up a track into the bush, he wades into a glassy stream, stirring small, brown fish into a spin. Surveys have identified some 50 freshwater species in these waters, a haven of biodiversity in a nation ravaged by high rates of logging. At the sound of a thumping <em>whoosh<\/em> overhead, Pitatamae points up just as two Papuan hornbills flash across a gap in the canopy. \u201cThey always fly in pairs,\u201d observes Wilko Bosma, a lanky Dutchman trailing behind the ranger. \u201cThey\u2019re committed for life.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Bosma made his own commitment to this forest after landing here 25&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/features\/solomon-islands-sirebe-carbon-credits\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at e360.yale.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When head ranger Ikavy Pitatamae walks into the rainforest on Choiseul Island, the westernmost of the nearly 1,000 islands that make up the South Pacific archipelago of Solomon Islands, he surveys it with the heart of a tribal landowner and the eye of a forester. 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