Women opposing logging in the Solomon Islands Makira Province will stage a peaceful protest at the provincial capital on Wednesday.
Women from Mwanewiriwiri village on Ward 11 of Central Makira have been blocking access to the forest where logging operations are to take place.
Women representatives from the Honiara-based Regional Rights Resource Team and Paralegal community will fly to Kirakira to join the peaceful protest.
A spokesman for the womens' groups, Betty Luvusia says they will join the Makira women to show their support for the opposition to logging operations at Mwanewiriwiri, alleging that logging agreements and regulations have been breached.
Mrs Luvusia says hundreds of people are expected at the demonstration.
"The protest will be a march and it will a peaceful one. That will be led by Greenpeace, which they have an office there at Kirakira, also there is one in Honiara. They were in the lead organisation to do this march."
