Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ<p>30 years of forest defence in East Gippsland, Australia.</p><p>This video remembers those forest defenders that have died. But an image of myself locked on to a log loader is at 11:11 min. </p><p>I was arrested that morning at Goolengook. I spent two weeks in the forest in the winter of 1997 trying to stop the destruction of the ancient trees.</p><p>In 2006 the State Government suspended logging while an independent (but government-appointed) assessment was initiated to determine if it should be added to the Victorian Conservation Reserve System.</p><p>After ten years of campaigning for the protection of Goolengook, the Victorian State election of November 2006 saw the Australian Labor party returned, with a promise to protect the Goolengook block within a new National Park.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/SaveForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SaveForests</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/StopLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopLogging</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN7rh4L23Yw&ab_channel=GECOEastGippsland" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=SN7rh4L23Y</span><span class="invisible">w&ab_channel=GECOEastGippsland</span></a></p>