“Oh the skin looks darker, the language differs, but is there a link between Tasmania and the Solomon Islands?”

Forest Alert
http://www.forestalert.org/forest.php?id=46&lang=en

Solomon Islands

Japan used to be the destination for half of the Solomon Islands’ timber exports (which are predominantly in the form of logs).

...during the early 1980s and mid-1990s, Japan alone imported more timber from the Solomon Islands than the maximum sustainable yield from the country’s natural forests.
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/ir/workingpapers/97-6.pdf  Just read it!!!
and
http://www.stwr.net/modules.php?name=Content&file=print&pid=203.
Japan’s imports (and particularly any supplied by Malaysian logging companies) were associated with tax evasion including transfer pricing fraud (for example: under-valuation, mis-classification of species).