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Australia: Wildfire forces anti-logging activist from tree after 457-day vigil

2013-03-07 07:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: A bushfire has forced an environmental campaigner from the top of a tree following a 457-day vigil to block logging of a stand of old-growth forest in Australia. Miranda Gibson, 31, has been perched 60 meters of an ancient gum tree in southwestern Tasmania since December 14, 2011. From the tree she has led a media campaign using her solar-powered computer to block a Malaysian company from logging the surrounding area. The company, Ta Ann, has been linked to destruction of rainforests in Borneo,...

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