As some Lismore and Ballina councillors seek to prevent further protections for local koala habitat, ruling out extensions to the Great Koala National Park, Northern Rivers Guardians have announced two public events focusing on forests, happening later this month in Lismore.

Twenty forest defenders protested at the Smithton Ta Ann mill yesterday, while more than 100 forest defenders are involved in frontline actions across three sites as part of Bob Brown Foundation’s Forest Resistance Tour.

Murray Watt's lifeline to loggers won’t save native forests, says Bob Brown Foundation, as forest protests continue in Lutruwita/Tasmania.

Lismore-based lawyer Steve Bolt has recently retired, after thirty years of practice in the Northern Rivers. The Echo caught up with this illustrious local legal legend to talk about the intersection of activism and the law, in his own life and the wider community.

Eight women from around northern NSW have attached themselves to the entrance and rooftop of the Forestry Corporation’s office in Park Avenue, Coffs Harbour.

A delegation of forest campaigners, scientists and activists brought the plight of forests and wildlife to federal parliament yesterday.

On Thursday I delivered the Hal Wootten Lecture at the University of NSW*. I’ve got this column due today. 

Yesterday, more than 7,000 people at rallies across Australia issued an urgent call to the country’s politicians to protect native forests and immediately end native forest logging.

John Seed, founder of the Rainforest Information Centre and the Deep Ecology Network, was arrested yesterday for attaching himself to logging machinery in Bulga State Forest, becoming the 16th person to be arrested in this campaign.

Veteran forest campaigner Susie Russell was arrested yesterday in Bulga State Forest. She was the 12th arrest in the local community’s campaign to protect the Bulga forest.