MEDIA RELEASE
29.04.2008

Another activist arrested at Little Denison Blockade

This morning a fifth forest defender was arrested at a blockade in old growth forest in the Little Denison Valley.

" At 1130am police removed an activist from the blockade in the Little Denison Valley, 35 kilometres west of Huonville. The activist had occupied a tree sit attached to logging machinery, preventing the destruction of old growth forest," Huon Valley Environment Centre spokesperson Warrick Jordan said.

" Over 80 people have been involved in three consecutive days of peaceful direct action. This forest is the last remaining stand of old growth Eucalyptus regnans forest in the area. Figures regarding the percentage of old growth protected statewide are irrelevant when local communities are seeing the last old growth forests in their backyards destroyed. " Warrick Jordan said.

"The majority of tall eucalypt old growth forest in Tasmania is still accessible to the woodchip industry. We call on the federal government to immediately protect these world unique, carbon rich forests," Warrick Jordan said

"Peaceful direct action to prevent logging operations will continue in the Little Denison Valley, and in other ancient forests in Southern Tasmania," Warrick Jordan said.