Anti-logging protesters sentenced despite highlighting breaches in timber operations
ABCIs protesting against logging wrong if it exposes alleged illegal practices? Key points: Maddie Stephenson and Neville Kirk were charged for protesting at Wild Cattle Creek State Forest in June Weeks later the NSW Environment Protection Authority identified logging breaches in the forest The pair's lawyer argued in court they were fighting for the protection of state forests This question was at the centre of the sentencing of two activists charged over a protest at a state forest on the NSW Mid North Coast. Indigenous man Neville Kirk and Maddie Stephenson were charged after locking themselves onto logging machinery as part of a protest in June at Wild Cattle Creek State Forest — an unburnt remnant neighbouring bushfire-affected land on the Dorrigo Plateau. She told the court the NSW Environment Protection Authority ordered a Stop Work Order to the Forestry Corporation's operations at the forest weeks after the protest. The EPA says this giant tree was allegedly felled unlawfully by Forestry Corporation at the Wild Cattle Creek State Forest.
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