Former Greens Party leader Bob Brown and two supporters have been arrested and charged over a logging protest in Tasmania at a harvesting site in the Styx Valley, near Mount Field National Park.
Before being transferred to Bridgewater Police Station, Dr. Brown held an impromptu press conference from the back of a police vehicle, telling an AAP reporter that loggers from Forestry Tasmania had clear-fell logged up to five giant trees from an area close to the boundary of a world heritage area.
Dr. Brown said the area the felled trees occupied should not have been designated outside the World Heritage zone due to it being home to Eucalyptus regnans, one of the world’s tallest flowering plants, which can grow to 100 metres....
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