Former Greens Leader Bob Brown Arrested Over Logging Protest in Tasmania

Dr. Brown is an active defender of Tasmania’s giant trees which has seen him detained for various trespass offences.
Former Greens Leader Bob Brown Arrested Over Logging Protest in Tasmania
Former Greens Leader Bob Brown at the Sydney Opera House in Australia on June 14, 2019. Brook Mitchell/Getty Images
Jim Birchall
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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.

Jim Birchall
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Jim Birchall has written and edited for several regional New Zealand publications. He was most recently the editor of the Hauraki Coromandel Post.
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