A LOGGING operation has resumed in the Boyne State Forest north of Batemans Bay after environmental activists brought it to a halt on Tuesday.
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Eighteen South East Forest Rescue activists protested against the operation as a way of combating climate change, and Forestry Corporation shut it down for the whole of Tuesday before resuming on Wednesday morning.
To prevent logging vehicles from operating, two activists scaled trees 25 and 30 metres high and connected platforms to four of the vehicles with high tensile steel cable.
Forestry Corporation southern regional manager Daniel Twan said when the protestors were asked to leave they did, except for those in the trees.
“Police Rescue had to remove the cables and re-tie them to other trees,” he said.
Mr Twan said the operation was legal and that the resulting sawlogs would be going to mills in Narooma and Nowra.
South East Forest Rescue’s Lisa Stone said the group was calling for an end to native forest logging on public land “as an efficient way to help Australia meet its climate change mitigation targets”.
“Logging not only destroys carbon sinks, but increases Australia’s CO2 emissions every year through both logging and burning,” she said.
“On the South Coast alone this is over 26 million tonnes CO2 every year. “There are now serious adverse impacts to the water catchment and the many threatened species of the area.”