Logging in the Challar Forest near Walpole in Western Australia because a protester perched herself seven metres above the ground on a steel pole. Source: The Australian
The protester was identified as Walpole resident Kelly Booth who said the protest action is to stop the “native forests being destroyed.”
According to a statement released by the WA Forest Alliance the protest action has stopped “logging machinery from operating” near one of the cleanest river in Australia – the Deep River.
WA Forest Alliance convener Jess Beckerling said in the statement: “The Deep River is the cleanest river in Western Australia and by some official records the cleanest in the country.
“The reason it’s still so pure is because its catchment is still forested.
“Clear-felling this beautiful forest threatens the Deep River.”
Booth added: “I am doing this because I can’t stand to see our native forests being destroyed. The southwest forests are so beautiful and so valuable.
“There are Carnaby’s Cockatoos nesting in this forest right now. They’re going to become extinct in my lifetime unless their nesting hollows and food supplies are protected. We cannot afford to lose any more habitat for our threatened species.”
