January 2006
Sila Village
Sila Village has a population of about 150 and is located on the western side of Viti Levu, the larger of Fiji’s two main islands. The people of Sila Village […]
Viti Levu Island
January 2006
Viani Village
Viani Village is a typical Fijian village, with a population of 200. Most people there make an income by farming root crops, collecting copra (dried coconut kernels), and fishing. They […]
January 2004
Navolau
Navolau Village is located in Ra Province on Fiji’s main island of Viti Levu. The village has agreed to create a 67-acre no-take marine reserve within their traditional fishing rights […]
January 2003
Laselase Village
Laselase has a population of approximately 300 people, consisting of two landowning clans (matanqali). The village has agreed to establish a no-take marine reserve in part of their traditional fishing […]
January 2003
Nakalavo
Nakalavo village’s ancestral rainforest is primary forest. One of the trees found there is the yasiyasi, a highly desirable native tree used for making furniture and other products. The village […]
January 2003
Veivatuloa, Lobau, and Wailoaloa
A logging company approached these remote villages, offering to pay for connecting the villages to Viti Levu’s existing power grid—in exchange for logging the area’s pristine 1,500-acre rainforest. Despite the […]
January 2001
Waibalavu
Waibalavu, a village of about 160 people, is surrounded by mountainous tropical rainforest. A large cave in the forest is home to a colony of endangered Pacific sheath-tail bats, also […]