From: The Mercury

Logging near breeding site
By ALISON RIBBON
11may06

IT has been a busy week for Huonville Police and protesters in Tasmania's southern forests, with four people arrested for alleged trespass in the past two days.

Three people were arrested yesterday, after chaining themselves to logging machinery in the Denison State Forest at Judbury, west of Huonville. Protesters said the action was to highlight endangered eagles that nested in the area.

On Tuesday, Laura Minnebo, 22, of Judbury, who was one of five protesters acting as a human roadblock to loggers, was arrested.

The trio arrested yesterday -- Warwick Jordan, Beau Plowman and Simon Jones -- had chained themselves to machinery but were removed by the State Emergency Services and taken into custody by police.

Mr Jordan said that they, along with Ms Minnebo, were expecting to appear in court at a later date, charged with alleged trespass.

Mr Jordan said protesters had been successfully disrupting logging work in the Denison State Forests for a week.

He said an extra 10ha of forest was proposed for logging in the area, even though it was a known breeding site for wedge-tailed eagles.

"Wedge-tailed eagles are an endangered species and small buffer zones given to them by Forestry Tasmania mean nothing when large swathes of native forest are being logged," he said.

But Forestry Tasmania Operations manager Kim Creak said loggers had kept a greater distance from nests than required.