A group of protestors from the Bob Brown Foundation have today blocked access to a controversial logging coupe in Tasmania’s Central Highlands, near Brady’s Lake.

“This logging operation is decimating old growth forest right in the heart of this beautiful island, on unceded Aboriginal land. The logs that are being incessantly pulled out of here are hundreds of years old,” said Lisa Searle, on the ground this morning with the Bob Brown Foundation.

“These highland Eucalyptus forests are slow-growing and provide essential habitat for a number of iconic Tasmanian species like the Masked Owl and Wedge-Tailed Eagle,” said Lisa Searle, Bob Brown Foundation Campaigns Organiser.

These ancient forests are today safe from logging as a group of 8 protesters have blocked access into the logging coupe, preventing the loggers from getting into the forests and disrupting all logging operations.

“Every time there is a group of citizens who stand up for forest protection on the frontline, the onus is on the government to move the loggers to plantations. There is now an opportunity for progressive independents and The Greens to secure an end to native forest logging with Labor or the Liberals as the future of Tasmania’s Parliament is brokered. We are calling for forest protection across this island to be granted once and for all,” said Jenny Weber, Bob Brown Foundation’s Campaigns Manager.

“The Bob Brown Foundation has been taking action to halt the logging of these forests in recent months, and while governments continue to destroy the precious ecosystems, we will keep going as long as this heinous logging continues. We will not stop. We are here to defend these forests and we will not back down,” Lisa Searle concluded.