[Media Releases]
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New media releases can now be found on the Forests page at huon.org

28.11.07: Forestry Tasmania Act as Big Brother Tracking Tasmania's Peaceful Protestors Activity

27.08.07: Tasmanian Forest Defenders Occupy Gunns Head Office

23.08.07: Weld Valley Logging Slugs Taxpayers- Giant Bill highlights taxpayer funding of forest destruction

16.08.07: Forest Defenders expose selective logging sham in wilderness forest

06.08.07: Giant banner on cable logger highlights pulp mill impact in Tasmania

19.07.07: Community Reclaims Forest as Loggers Rally

26.06.07: Forest Defenders vindicated by United Nations body

12.06.07: Tasmania Continues Landclearing by Another Name, Work Halted on Giant Weld Valley Clearfell

21.05.07: World Heritage in crisis – Forest defenders act to protect national park

18.05.07: Protest peels back mill's clean green veneer

30.03.07: Forestry Tasmania Lies

29.03.07: Bridge sit and multiple road blockade halts all logging in the Weld Valley

28.03.07: Weld Valley Forest Defender in Court

13.03.07: Forest Vigil held in Tasmania’s Southern Ancient Forests

09.03.07: Weld Valley Blockade reestablished by Forest Defenders

05.03.07: First Weld Activist Charged for "Walk In", Forestry Tasmania pursue Peaceful Protestor

02.03.07: Logging halted in endangered species habitat – Southern Forests, Tasmania

28.02.07: Weld Activists Successfully Halt Operations. Tasmania’s Forest Defender Avoids Arrest

28.02.07: New Taxpayer-funded Assault on Tasmania’s Wilderness Forests. Weld Activists halt "Road to Ruin"

21.02.07: Threats to forest defenders escalate in Tasmanian forest protests

20.02.07: Community Resistance Continues to highlight Weld Valley Destruction

19.02.07: One arrest in Tasmania's Southern Forest wilderness Weld Valley

19.02.07: Weld Valley Ancient Forest Machinery locked down

17.02.07: Weld Valley walk-in to witness wilderness destruction

16.02.07: Forestry Tasmania launches legal attack against community walk

15.02.07: Eight Weld Valley Activists Appear in Court, Ancient Forest Destruction Continues

15.02.07: Protesters Halt logging traffic, Weld Valley Ancient Forest Destruction Continues

14.02.07: Loggers endangered forest defender’s lives and threatened one with sexual assault

12.02.07: Direct Action in Tasmania's Southern Forests

29.01.07: Four Arrests in Tasmania's Threatened Old Growth Southern Forests

25.01.07: Action Highlights Government Hypocrisy on Climate Change - Forest Protection First Step to Reducing Emissions

20.12.06: Police Raid at Weld Valley Blockade - Santa in the tree offers presents as Tasmania Police bust peaceful protest

20.12.06: Christmas elves call on Mr Lennon to protect the Weld and Upper Florentine valleys.

02.12.06: Weld Valley Support Camp Firebombed

27.11.06: Community Reclaims Weld Valley with message to Protect Ancient Forest

24.11.06: Second Protestor Arrested in Weld Today

22.11.06: Greens Press Release & Motion in Parliament - HALT LOGGING AT WELD VALLEY!

21.11.06: Weld Valley activists take their protest to Parliament House

20.11.06: Protests and arrests continue to try save Tasmania's Wilderness

19.11.06: 100 Tasmanian's Support Weld Valley Protection at Walk-In

19.11.06: Community stages walk into Weld Valley exclusion zone

18.11.06: Forest Defender gaoled for two nights

18.11.06: 4 More Forest Defenders arrested in Weld Valley protests

17.11.06: Action continues in Weld Valley, Two More Arrests

17.11.06: Three People Arrested yesterday in Weld Valley. Protests set to continue.

16.11.06: Melbourne protest to support Tasmania's forests

15.11.06: Hobart Action to support Weld Valley, Tasmania

15.11.06: WELD VALLEY VIGIL POLICE RAID FLAGS INDUSTRY MOVES TO CONTINUE FOREST DESTRUCTION OVER SUMMER (from Greens MHA Tim Morris)

06.11.06: New forest blockade defends Tasmania's World Heritage forests

12.10.06: Ancient Leatherwood destruction halted in Tasmania's Southern Forests

12.07.06: Weld Activists Reveal Government / Forestry Tasmania Silence On Forest Furnace Plans

08.07.06: Weld Cup Final 2006 - Symbolic Soccer Match in Tasmania

11.05.06: Eagle Protests Face Full Police Onslaught - Five Tasmanian Forest Activists arrested in Styx and Denison.

10.05.06: Three Arrests in Tasmania's Southern Forests Action

10.05.06: Action Continues to Protect Eagle Habitat in Tasmania's Southern Forest

09.05.06: Activist Arrested at Tasmanian Forest Blockade

08.05.06: Tasmanian Activist Evades Police at Wedge Tail Breeding Site

05.05.06: A Tasmanian Ancient Forest Protected for Third Day - Community Activists Hold Strong and Promise to Stay

03.05.06: Logging in High Conservation Value Forest Halted

26.04.06: International Spotlight on Weld Valley Forest Protest

11.03.06: Weld Valley Suppporters To Spell Out a Message on Threatened Forests.

03.03.06: Intimidation in the Forest Continues - Another threat of violence against Weld Camp

13.02.06: Weld Activists Stage "Return To Nature" Action

08.02.06: Forestry Tasmania Packs Up and Moves On

06.02.06: Two Forest Actions Close Down Lower Weld Valley

05.02.06: Car Smashed, Weld Camp Attacked

01.02.06: WORLD HERITAGE AREA UNDER THREAT: Campaign To Protect Lower Weld Valley Expands

25.01.06: Weld Valley Activists, Gate Keepers

23.01.06: Community Locked Out, Camp Weld Locked In

17.01.06: Veneer Mill Threat to Lower Weld Valley

11.01.06: S.W.A.G. Activists Stage City Demonstration

14.12.05: Logging Halted Adjacent to Tahune Airwalk

29.11.05: Evan Rolley Visit Tahune AirWalk: A Woodchip Coverup

Click here: Launch of Weld Valley Upper Canopy Research Station

29.09.05: Gun shots and spotlighting reported by Weld camp

29.09.05: FORESTRY PRESS RELEASE: Safety Concerns in Weld Valley

28.09.05: Forestry locks in Weld activists locks out public

28.09.05: FORESTRY PRESS RELEASE: Gate locking.

26.09.05: Activists launch tree-sit village in threatened Lower Weld Valley

23.09.05: Weld Valley Community Gathering