Knitting Nanna Bronwyn Vost was arrested yesterday for attaching herself to logging machinery in Bulga State Forest.
Ms Vost is 75 years young, and has seven grandchildren. She says her children and grandchildren are immensely proud of her efforts to create a better future. She is a retired librarian.
Bronwyn Vost grew up below Mr Keira near Wollongong. Her house backed onto the rainforest and like the other neighbourhood kids, she spent her free time wandering in that area.
‘The neighbours’ mum had a big bell and she would ring it and we could hear it from a long way away, and we knew it was time to go home,’ she remembers.
‘That rainforest is where I fell in love with trees and the amazing life that you find within a forest. When the woodchipping industry around Eden was really eating through the forests there I went down and joined a protest and was arrested. That was in 1989.’
Thirty-five years later, Ms Vost is still fighting tooth and nail to halt the relentless assault on our native forests.
‘And now I’m here, doing my little bit to try and stop the logging in Bulga forest. I really can’t believe that even though there are 100 greater gliders and 14 koalas that we know are in this patch of forest, their homes are being cut down by these massive machines.
‘Every tree gone hacks away at the web of life that sustains us. We need these forests, not just for the animals, but for our own survival on a drying planet. These ecosystems are critical components of our own life support systems.
‘I’m really worried about my grandkids and I want them to have hope,’ said Ms Vost.
She was taken into custody yesterday and taken to Taree Police Station for processing.
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