JAN 14, 2008: A camp set up by conservationists almost three years ago was broken up by police on Monday morning at the request of Forestry Tasmania which wants to start logging.
A protester who locked himself in a spiderhole tunnel for over 30 hours has been charged with trespass in Hobart. The activist was one of a group attempting to stop Forestry Tasmania building a road into a logging coupe in the Upper Florentine Valley.
Two other men have also been charged after trying to enter the same tunnel. A Queensland woman was also arrested after evading police earlier by climbing higher up a tree as they used a cherry-picker to bring her down.
Four protesters remain in tree-sits as more people arrived to support activists who have been living in the area. Still Wild Still Threatened say 150 people have gathered for a community walk through the area in support of protesters who are trying to stop a logging road.
“The community members who are out in the Upper Florentine Valley in defence of our old growth forests will be attempting to get into this exclusion zone by any means so they can witness the ongoing destruction of our old growth forests…”
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