A Supreme Court judge has compared images of a felled forest with a World War I battlefield before ordering a temporary ban on logging in a hotly contested part of East Gippsland.
Environmentalists claimed a historic victory after winning an injunction over logging of two zones of old-growth forest at Brown Mountain, seen as a symbolic battleground by greens and the timber industry.
Sue Neales: Mercury: Justice Forrest said it was clearly arguable that the potoroo was present in the forest.
His injunction will stand until a trial later this year or early next year tests claims the logging of old forests at Brown Mountain poses a threat to endangered species.
That case is likely to draw on precedents set, but later overturned after laws were changed, when Australian Greens leader Bob Brown argued in court that logging in Tasmania’s East Coast Wielangta Forest should cease because it threatened the endangered wedge-tailed eagle, swift parrot and Wielangta stag beetle. Landmark old-growth log ban
Age Online
