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Totoka Islands has just received a 4 t electric forklift for the timber yard at Drasa.

The machine handles logs and sawn timber without diesel. With it in service, the whole timber yard is now a fully solar-powered production site: it consumes zero fuel and is 100% run on sustainable energy from our off-grid solar plant.

The 500 kWp off-grid solar power plant with a 1 MWh battery bank is complete and now runs three sawmills, a planing machine and the timber drying kiln.

Commercial barging launched to serve sea logistics across Fiji’s archipelago of more than 300 islands.

Continuous planting brought the total number of planted trees to 208,000.

Fiji Sun reported on Totoka Islands’ investment in greener solutions for Fiji and her people.

Totoka Islands registered for the four-year global competition to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or oceans.

Another 50,000 mahogany and teak trees brought the planted total to 150,000.

A 21.6 kWp plant mounted on three 40' HQ sea containers, founded on micro-piles.

More than 100,000 trees planted — mahogany, teak and indigenous species.

Tens of thousands of trees planted; cleaning protected them from fire and weeds.

The landing craft commissioned in 2015 moved equipment to remote planting sites.

Nurseries were extended with the goal to plant 100,000 new trees by the end of 2018.

Trees planted four years earlier had crossed 10 m; sandalwood had begun to seed.

Manual and automated irrigation for forests and plantation plots through the dry season.

Thousands of trees planted each year, including indigenous species grown from collected seed.

Trials of trees, vegetables and herbs, grown with natural manure and no chemicals.

New seedlings from seed collected in indigenous forest pockets on the properties.

Years of cleaning protect young trees from fire and creepers until they make their own shade.

Local decorative plants collected for later landscaping of residential developments.

Plots destroyed by Tropical Cyclone Winston were being replanted.

Food, water and clothes for 300 households after Tropical Cyclone Winston.

Cleanup after Winston; the team restored road and bridge access for the community.

New team members attended a Boat Master Training class in Lautoka.

Organic tomatoes, including a first sale to a superyacht.

The landing craft purchased from Australia was launched in Lautoka.

Two tractor trucks arrived to move containers, machines, timber and farm produce.

Six months of border marking across remote, thickly vegetated country.

Drought-driven fire burnt several hundred two-year-old seedlings; nurseries were spared.

A Serra specialist ran a five-day installation, maintenance and safety course.

Nursery capacity was increased ahead of the November 2014 wet-season planting.

Borders were marked and checked on horseback to protect the trees.

Teak planted in November 2012 had reached 4 m after 18 months.

A loader and excavator arrived to cut fire-protection lines before the dry season.

Nurseries begun in Kadavu after the Vanua Levu model, stocked with local seedlings.

MSAF officers trained five new Kadavu employees on site.

Mahogany, teak, sandalwood and vesi for the wet-season planting.

Each tree received an identifier, location, species, height, diameter and condition.

Vesi (Intsia bijuga) seedlings from a neighbouring village; a nitrogen-fixing hardwood.

Liebherr mobile crane, workboats, desalination and welding gear arrived.

The senior engineer completed a week of Liebherr training from Australia.

Truck, crane, driving and boat-master licences; the car fleet grew to three.

A pilot vegetable plantation was started.

Equipment in sea containers and boats in mangroves came through without significant damage.

Installed equipment was secured before the cyclone season.

The programme began with the Ministry of Fisheries and Forests on idle freehold land.

Loader, excavator, sawmill, solar plants, desalination and sewage treatment arrived.

Local specialists were hired and trained on machines, boats and equipment.

About 1,500 acres (600 ha); Totoka Islands (Fiji) Ltd was registered.

A second trip to intensify the search for large freehold properties.

Remote properties were inspected by boat.

A worldwide search for tropical freehold land narrowed to Fiji.