BREAKING: LOGGING HALTED IN 3 AREAS IN VICTORIA’S CENTRAL HIGHLANDS
On this glorious morning, three forest areas are simultaneously being protected as community groups step in to stop logging across Victoria’s Central Highlands!
Near Mt. Baw Baw, Forest Conservation Victoria have setup a tree-sit blockade, the Kinglake Friends of the Forests group have walked-in to stop logging at an area in Kinglake West, and in Warburton, the Protect Warburton Ranges group have a person locked onto a machine.
The community has had enough! We want to see an end to native forest logging immediately.
Together with a city action at Dan Andrews’ office this morning, these four protests are part of an Australia-wide campaign that is unifying behind two messages:
“Logging is criminal in a climate emergency”
“There is NO CONSENT given by First Nations people to continue decimating this country”.
Elders and Traditional Owners are speaking up against the handing over of Traditional Country, Totems, Stories and Cultural Values to logging agencies without consent.
“We as the First People belonging to this country have never given consent for the destruction and decimation of our land,” said Lidia Thorpe, Gunnai / Gunditjmara woman.
“Our Totems, Songlines and cultural identity are intrinsically linked with the bush and all living things within it,” said Lidia Thorpe.
“Governments have orchestrated and manufactured consent from corporations breaching the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples, article 19, which states ‘States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them” said Lidia Thorpe.
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