Australia: Bunbury Forest Protest to Continue Against Old Growth
Logging
1/28/00
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Title: Bunbury Forest protest to continue against old growth
logging
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Status: Copyright 2000, contact source for permission to reprint
Date: January 28, 2000
Conservationists in the south-west have vowed to re-enter Hilliger
Forest this morning, as part of a peaceful campaign to stop old
growth logging.
Forest activist Louise Morris says intense felling is currently
underway at Hilliger Fall, an old growth Jarrah forest, 40 kilometres
south of Nannup.
Ms Morris says the area is also home to an array of threatened
wildlife, including the forest red-tailed black cockatoo.
She says her group is on the front line and needs support from city
dwellers, if the logging is to stop.
"We are basically the eyes and ears of the West Australian public,
letting them know what laws are being broken and how shoddy these
practices are," she said.
"And we are going to keep doing that because as this election looms,
people need to know what the Court Government is getting away with in
our forest."