From AAP:

Weld Valley logging protest

November 06, 2006 12:00am

Environmentalists in a southern Tasmanian forest have established a second blockade to try to prevent logging in the area.
Six anti-logging protesters today used a vehicle decorated like a giant bee to block access to a leatherwood-rich coupe in the Lower Weld Valley, south-west of Hobart.

Spokesman Warwick Jordan said the coupe, used regularly by beekeepers, bordered the world heritage-listed Upper Weld and contained globally significant forest.

Mr Jordan has called for a moratorium on logging in the Weld Valley while it is reassessed for world heritage listing.

"We'll be staying for as long as it takes to get it protected or until we're forcibly removed,'' he told AAP.

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