Logging protest Tasmania

Tasmanian tree sitter reaches 100 days.

Submitted by Flowerpower on Fri, 23/03/2012 - 5:27pm

Media Release March 23rd 2012 Miranda Gibson has been at the top of a tree in Tasmania’s threatened forest for 100 days. Ms Gibson’s extraordinary effort began in mid-december when she climbed to the top of the tree vowing to remain on her tree-top platform until the area was protected, as it should have been according to the Intergovernmental Agreement. Miranda celebrated her 100th day amid snow.

Geography: 
Tasmania
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Logging
Logging protest Tasmania
Observer Tree

Code Green demands exit from BenLomond

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 25/08/2011 - 8:11pm

Code Green media statement August 25th 2011 10 members of environmental community group CODE GREEN have blockaded a logging coupe in East Ben Lomond in Tasmania’s northeast. Tasmania Police and Forestry Tasmania are on-site and have instated a 4.5 km radius exclusion zone. The protesters have been directed to leave the exclusion zone and nine members of the demonstration have complied. A protester is still suspended from a tree-sit thirty metres up a Black Peppermint Gum attached to three machines.

Geography: 
Tasmania
Keywords: 
code green
Logging protest Tasmania