Tetepare Island is one of the conservation jewels of the Solomon Islands. This long, rugged island cloaked in rainforest and fringed with biodiverse reefs is the largest uninhabited island in the South Pacific. Home to the one of the Solomon Islands' leading conservation projects and a unique, locally-run ecolodge, Tetepare is attracting visitors from around the world.

Uninhabited for 150 years after it's people fled from the threat of headhunting, Tetepare is an island forgotten by time and swathed in mystery. But what makes this island truly extraordinary is that in a country which has lost almost all of its forests to commercial logging, Tetepare remains untouched.

Six years ago, when the threat of logging loomed over Tetepare, the island's traditional landowners rejected logging offers and came together to together to save this last wild island of the Pacific. We formed an organisation called the Tetepare Descendants' Association (TDA) to manage and protect the island as a conservation area.

Tetepare has received international recognition for its conservation and archaeological significance. Experts from around the world, including renowned ornithologist and author Jarrod Diamond, have recommended the island be conserved. A dazzling variety of plants and animals make their home in the island’s 120 square kilometres of primary lowland rainforest – some of the last remaining in the Melanesia.

The island’s beaches support nesting populations of three species of turtle including the endangered leatherback turtle. Other species inhabiting the island and surrounding waters include the dugong (Dugon dugon), the world’s largest skink (Corucia zebrata), the endemic Tetepare White-eye (Zosterops tetepari), hornbills, tiny pygmy parrots, huge bump-headed parrot fish, schools of barracuda and pods bottlenose and spinner dolphins. more

The Tetepare Descendants' Association needs your help to conserve Tetepare - the last wild island of the Pacific. We are raising money for a trust fund to keep our conservation program running.

Money raised will be used for conservation work including turtle monitoring and patrolling the Marine Protected Area. To donate to the trust fund, or to support one of our conservation or community programs, click here.