Two HSC students have locked themselves to a cement filled barrel and a third HSC student has locked on to logging machinery to prevent logging operations in Orara East State Forest in Coffs Harbour.
A few kilometres away in Boambee State Forest two grandmothers have halted logging machinery by locking themselves to the arm of a harvester.
A tree-climber has also erected a tree-sit with the intent to stay for as long as it takes to protect Boambee State Forest from logging.
The Bellingen Activist Network says these direct actions are a response to ‘both a climate and species extinction crisis’.
‘Communities are increasingly turning towards brave acts of direct action, putting their bodies in the way of irreversible destruction as a last line of defence,’ the network said in a media statement this morning.
‘Almost everyone wants to see native forests protected and Bellingen Activist Network (BAN) is currently experiencing more and more everyday people requesting to be upskilled to take direct actions locally to protect the forests.’
BAN is calling for an immediate end to all industrial logging in NSW native forests. Western Australian and Victoria have committed to ending native forest logging. More information on upcoming local actions and events, including the upcoming Forest Fest on July 8 can be found at facebook.com/
Well isn’t wonderful to some morals and guts in this god-forsaken country ?
Wonderful heroes who stand up for values our corrupt politicians can’t even grasp the concept of, while demonising those who see more value in a forest, and a tiny and rapidly diminishing wild-life remnant, than just a source of wood pulp for toilet paper, enabling them to sell out this country to foreign interests.
Well Done ! G”)
I applaud the actions of these brave community members, and urge the Minns’ government to cease all native forest logging.
If Minns is serious about budget repair there is a motza to be saved by shutting this uneconomic and environmentally destructive industry.
More Brave Heroes of the Environment, wonderful to see.