[Huon Forests] Media Release,, ,,28 July 2009,, ,,Two Conservationists Arrested In Tasmania’s Weld Valley Protest

[jenny weber]

While forest activists participated in this action yesterday in the Weld 
Valley, logging contractors informed them that they had seen pygmy 
possums and spotted tailed quolls in the coupe known as WR15F, while 
they were logging!!!!
Also these forest activists are witnessing the huge stockpiling of logs 
on the coupe landings, as log trucks are not transporting logs to the 
woodchip mill for the next two weeks as these mills are closed.

Whilst forest activists were climbing trees the other day, they 
witnessed gliders flying through the trees of the threatened forest they 
were in.
It's been some sad days in the Weld.


Media Release

 

28 July 2009

 

Two Conservationists Arrested In Tasmania’s Weld Valley Protest

 

“Two Conservationists were arrested in threatened forests of the Weld 
Valley yesterday.  The two conservationists were attached to machinery 
and atop a tripod for ten hours, and were arrested at 2pm,”  Huon Valley 
Environment Centre’s Jenny Weber said.

 

“Conservationists participated in a non violent direct action in the 
Weld Valley to halt the logging of two forest areas.  These threatened 
forest areas are ancient ecosystems, one of these areas is adjacent to 
the Tasmanian World Heritage Area.  Logging in these areas is a travesty 
in a time when climate change is a global emergency,” Jenny Weber said.

 

“Huon Valley Environment Centre is calling for the immediate end to all 
logging in the Weld Valley, and real action taken to protect ancient 
forests for future generations.  Logging of these wild forests is 
currently at an alarming rate with seven logging operations in the 
valley.  Wildlife habitat of the Wedge tailed Eagle, Spotted Tail Quoll 
and the Pygmy Possums are vanishing,” Jenny Weber said.

 

Contact

Jenny Weber

Huon Valley Environment Centre

0427 366 929