Logging opponents take fight to Govt
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People opposed to controversial logging work in a New South Wales far south coast forest have taken their fight to Sydney today.
Harvesting began last week in the Bermagui forest where police have set up an exclusion zone to keep protesters away from the logging work.
Conservationists say the Bermagui forest is koala habitat and should also be retained for its value as a carbon sink.
However, the Department of Primary Industries' Forestry division says the forest is regrowth and provides an important log supply.
John Hibberd from the South-East Region Conservation Alliance says a deputation will meet Government representatives in Sydney today to put the case against logging, not only at Bermagui, but in native forests throughout the region.
"As they get older more and more carbon is stored in them and we believe if native forest logging is stopped in Australia, a massive saving in carbon emissions could be made at the stroke of a pen, right now the state and federal governments across Australia could massively reduce the carbon emissions of this country," he said.
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