AUSTRALIA: Conservationists hold Barrabup jarrah forest protest
© 2001 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
November 26, 2001
A group of conservationists is protesting in the Barrabup jarrah forest near Nannup today to try to protect it from logging.
About 30 protesters have secured a steel cage around logging machinery and one person is suspended above the logging road.
The Western Australian Forest Alliance describe Barrabup as high conservation value forest, but this type of forest is not due to be assessed until next month.
Alliance spokeswoman Jess Beckerling says it is unbelievable that the State Government is allowing logging to occur before high conservation value forests are assessed.
"The assessment hasn't even begun yet, they haven't decided who the person is whose going to do the consultation, but Barrabup which we've been talking to them about for six or nine months now as being a high conservation value area is being logged before that assessment has even begun," she said.