All villages harvest marine animals including clams, turtles and sharks. A smaller number of villages take crayfish, dolphin and octopus and a species of seaweed. In East Rennell fish is a regular part of the diet but it is mostly Tilapia mozambica which is harvested from the lake. The government introduced this species around 1957 as an additional protein source for the villagers. There has been no commercial logging on Rennell but local people have been using portable mills to produce timber for local use.
Most villages have an average of two chainsaws.
There are no fixed sawmills and three villages make charcoal. The forest is a storehouse for the villages providing timber, poles and posts, ropes and canes, firewood, food, medicine, bark for tapa cloth, canoe wood, carving wood and materials for tools, fishing and crafts. Orchids, butterflies and small animals are occasionally taken from the forest and sold. More commonly, coconut crabs are harvested as well as coral and shells. There are no reports of live birds being sold.