Update: Protesters at Last Hope Moose Camp declare partial victory and pack up seven-month encampment
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After 202 days of camping out to protect the Beals Brook forest from being logged, a group of protesters led by Extinction Rebellion are announcing “partial victory” today. As was previously reported, the 24-ha parcel of 80-year-old forest on the South Mountain in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, was slated to be cut late last year by the forest industry consortium WestFor, after receiving approval from the province’s Department of Natural Resources and Renewables (DNRR). But before that could happen, a group mobilized and got in just ahead of the feller bunchers, and have occupied the site ever since.
Update: Protesters at Last Hope Moose Camp declare partial victory and pack up seven-month encampment
Update: Protesters at Last Hope Moose Camp…
Update: Protesters at Last Hope Moose Camp declare partial victory and pack up seven-month encampment
After 202 days of camping out to protect the Beals Brook forest from being logged, a group of protesters led by Extinction Rebellion are announcing “partial victory” today. As was previously reported, the 24-ha parcel of 80-year-old forest on the South Mountain in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, was slated to be cut late last year by the forest industry consortium WestFor, after receiving approval from the province’s Department of Natural Resources and Renewables (DNRR). But before that could happen, a group mobilized and got in just ahead of the feller bunchers, and have occupied the site ever since.