Bamboo Fiji

25/09/2026

Bamboo is not just about what we build. It starts with what we plant.

This is our second bamboo plantation and agroforestry initiative in Fiji.

Our first was Greenhill Bamboo Farm, where we partnered with Ratu Manasa Cole from Vatulele Village Cakaudrove province to establish Bambusa balcooa.

Now at Gaia Earth Estate, we’re taking the next step.

A bamboo forest and park integrated with agroforestry, water features, unique bamboo structures and the regeneration of degraded land.

The vision: a living bamboo forest and park, a pond with bamboo feature structures, and land that heals as it grows. Every clump we plant today is the material, shade, soil and water catchment of tomorrow.

16/09/2026

Fiji’s bamboo industry is taking root.

This feature from GGGI Pacific highlights the opportunity to develop bamboo for sustainable construction, rural livelihoods, land restoration and climate resilience.

Building a successful industry will require communities, landowners, government, researchers and businesses working together across the complete value chain.

Follow Bamboo Fiji as we help connect the people, knowledge and practical work driving the sector forward.

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🎋 Ahead of World Bamboo Day on 18 September, we’re highlighting the people helping grow Fiji’s bamboo story.

Meet Arno Roos, founder of Pacific Ark and an advocate for regenerative approaches to land, nature and communities.

Based in Vanua Levu, Arno has been working with the Global Green Growth Institute - GGGI and Fiji’s Ministry of Forestry, Fiji through the Fiji Bamboo Adaptation and Mitigation Project to explore how bamboo can contribute to sustainable construction, rural livelihoods, land restoration and climate resilience.

From mapping Fiji’s bamboo industry and documenting traditional knowledge, to strengthening harvesting and treatment practices and exploring new construction applications, the work is helping build connections across communities, government, research and industry.

For Arno, the vision is simple:

“Let’s plant more bamboo, let’s get the community involved, and let’s create a rural industry.”

At Gaia Earth Estate in Vanua Levu, that vision is already taking root, with bamboo being grown and prepared for future construction and demonstration.

As Fiji looks toward a more climate-resilient and sustainable future, bamboo could become more than a natural resource. It could become part of a local value chain creating opportunities for communities, landowners, businesses and future generations.

🎋 Read Arno’s full story and explore the work behind Fiji’s emerging bamboo industry: https://gggi.org/case-study-arno-roos-growing-a-bamboo-industry-for-a-climate-resilient-fiji/



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13/09/2026

Bamboo doesn’t have to replace the whole building to completely transform a space.

This started as a simple container building.

By adding locally made bamboo ceiling panels, furniture and architectural details, the whole feel of the space changed.

That is another avenue we see with Bamboo Fiji.

Ceilings. Screens. Furniture. Cabanas. Resort features. Event installations. Custom structures.

Designed and made here in Fiji using locally treated bamboo.

Have a space or idea you want to create differently? Talk to us.

Design. Fabricate. Build.

03/09/2026

Bamboo in action in Fiji. 🇫🇯🎋

From growing and harvesting through to treatment, skills and construction, this is what building a local bamboo industry looks like on the ground.

Great to see Arno Roös and Ratu Manasa Cole sharing some of the work happening here in Vanua Levu.

Grown here. Treated here. Built here.

25/08/2026

A good snapshot of bamboo in action across Vanua Levu.

From agroforestry and treatment to community infrastructure and construction, this is exactly the kind of full value-chain development Bamboo Fiji is here to document.

Vinaka GGGI for highlighting the work. 🇫🇯🎋

16/08/2026

Bamboo Fiji started with seeing the potential that was already here. 🇫🇯

The journey began through Pacific Ark, working with communities, local bamboo and early projects to understand what could actually work in Fiji.

That raised a bigger question:

Could bamboo become a serious local material and industry for Fiji?

To explore that properly, I went to Bali and the Philippines to learn from established bamboo industries, from craftsmanship and treatment through to joinery, engineered systems and construction.

But the goal was never to copy another country.

It was to bring the knowledge home, test it here, and adapt what works to Fiji’s species, climate, communities and construction environment.

That work is now becoming Bamboo Fiji, a dedicated platform focused on building the local skills, systems and capability needed to take bamboo further in Fiji.

Grown here. Treated here. Built here.

Building Fiji’s bamboo industry from the ground up.

14/08/2026

Bamboo Fiji is live! 🇫🇯

Fiji has bamboo.

The opportunity now is to build the knowledge, skills and systems around it.

Grow it.
Harvest it.
Treat it.
Process it.
Build with it.

That is what Bamboo Fiji is about.

We have gone out to learn from established bamboo industries, then brought that knowledge home to test, adapt and apply it here in Fiji.

Now the pieces are starting to come together, from planting and propagation through to treatment, craftsmanship, engineering and construction.

This page will document that journey as it happens.

The people.
The projects.
The experiments.
The lessons.
And what we can ultimately create from Fiji’s own bamboo.

Grown here. Treated here. Built here.

Welcome to Bamboo Fiji.

Building Fiji’s bamboo industry from the ground up.

Follow the journey. 🇫🇯🎋

08/08/2026