BLOCKADE!
This short documentary follows land defenders and their allies in their fight against Law 97, a forestry reform that would have handed over the province’s remaining forests to industry.
Category Archives: Logging
Canada: Judge Rules Against BC Logging Company’s Request to Probe Environmentalists’ Social Media Info
from Times Colonist A B.C. Supreme Court judge has rejected a logging company’s request for a court order allowing them to probe into the social media of members of a Kootenay environmental group. Lindsay Lyster released her decision in favour of Last […]
Trees in Atlanta Forest Cut By Goon Squad
from Scenes from the Atlanta Forest On December 22, 2022, around lunch time, we became aware of a large operation taking place in Weelaunee Peoples’ Park (Intrenchment Creek Park). Many trees were being felled and more of the PATH (paved bicycle route) […]
Brazil: Goldminers Carve Illegal “Road to Chaos” Out of Amazon Reserve
by Tom Phillips / The Guardian The surveillance plane eased off the runway and banked west towards the frontline of one of Brazil’s most dramatic environmental and humanitarian crises. Its objective: a clandestine 120km (75-mile) road that illegal mining mafias have carved […]
Group Sues to Halt Logging Near 2,000-Year-Old Redwood on Russian River
from San Francisco Chronicle A group of tree lovers in Sonoma County has filed a lawsuit to block logging near a 2,000-year-old redwood tree on the banks of the Russian River. In late November, Cal Fire approved a timber harvest plan that […]
Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project’s Press Release on Walton Lake Timber Sale
sent to Earth First! Newswire / by Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project A Ninth Circuit Court panel has granted Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project’s motion for a stay, leaving in place the injunction that prevents the Forest Service from logging the mature and old […]
Washington: Many, Many Trees Spiked in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Day of Action
from Puget Sound Anarchists submitted anonymously – Over the last several weeks we have spiked large swaths of trees in the so-called “Capitol State Forest” in rural so-called “Thurston County, Washington” (ancestral Nisqually, Squaxin, and Chehalis land), leading up to the November […]
Forest Defenders Build Anti-Logging Blockades In Mattole Forest
from It’s Going Down In recent days, forest defenders in the Mattole forest took action against multiple logging plans in the area by building blockade structures that prevented workers from entering their worksite, costing the company valuable time and money. Blockades were […]