The logging industry is loosely regulated in the Solomon Islands, and companies regularly encroach into areas without licenses to fell, said Chris Bone of New Zealand-based advocacy group OceansWatch.

The Solomon Islands government recently gave a company permission to log the area, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported. Now that there's proof the rats are still living in the forests ...

But logging has long been a big part of the economy of the Solomon Islands, the 12th largest exporter of rough wood in the world, according to The Observatory of Economic Complexity, a data ...