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Updated: February 23, 2006

Badja Forest Rescue Home Page

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What is Forest Rescue?
Where is Forest Rescue?
How to get there and what you'll need
Non-Violent Action.
How you can be involved.
Legal Information
Biomass (Burning Native Forests for Electricity)
Media Releases

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What is Forest Rescue?


	Forest Rescue Crew at Balook Rd, Badja State Forest

Forest Rescue, supported by The Wilderness Society, is a national movement coordinating non-violent direct actions to protect threatened high conservation value forest.

There are two major objectives of the group:

Firstly, we aim to raise the profile of our endangered forests by focusing on the corporations who intend to profit from forest destruction and the decision makers in business and government who sanction these activities.

Secondly Forest Rescue courageously stands between the forest and the chainsaws and bulldozers of the woodchip companies.

Forest Rescue aims to raise awareness of and protect Australia's old growth and high conservation forests through innovative, non-violent direct action techniques.

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Where is Forest Rescue?


Eucalypts towering above forest understorey in Compartment 2029, Badja State Forest

Forest Rescue is currently active in the forests of south-eastern NSW.

We are currently involved in protecting Badja State Forest from industrial logging and woodchipping.

In Badja many of the areas we are Rescuing have never been logged and function as complete ecosystems. The immediate area of the Forest Rescue at Balook contains at least 11 threatened species - who will certainly die if their habitat is lost.

We recognise the importance of holistic landscape management for the future of our unique forest biodiversity. Therefore, from our base in the pristine Badja wilderness, we are assessing our priorities of protection of other vital forests in the region. For example, we have already halted logging in a compartment in Dampier State Forest.

Although not all of these areas are strictly old-growth or identified wilderness, they have the capacity to be regenerated into vital habitat and provide real opportunities for the survival of forest species in the face of global climate change.

Fort Badja is the permanent camp in logging compartment 2020. Forest Rescuers are needed for staffing the Fort, construction, assessment of the surrounding forest, to carry out flora and fauna surveys and all the other tasks required to ensure the success of Forest Rescue.

How to get there and what you'll need

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Non-Violent Action

Any act of violence will undercut our effectiveness. To maintain non-violence we need to train activists well and have stewards and facilitators who are experienced in non-violent action."

- William Moyer, Founder of Movement for a New Society

Information on Non-Violent Direction


	Tree Ferns and Eucalypts in Compartment 2020, Badja State Forest

How you can be involved

There are many ways you can be involved with Forest Rescue.
Join the Badja Forest Rescue
Climbers, riggers, cooks, carpenters, herpetoligists, ecologists, poets, musicians, magicians, artists, storytellers, enthusiastic volunteers who wish to learn new skills - all contributions are welcome and useful.
You are welcome to come for the day or stay until the forest is protected.
For transport/ maps/ directions/ tips contact:

The Wilderness Society, Sydney or
Badja Rescue Hotline in Canberra 0407 496 019.

Be part of the Wilderness Action Group/Forest Rescue meetings 6:30pm every Tuesday night at the Wilderness Society's Sydney office (64-76 Kippax St, Surry Hills. right near Central Station) These meetings cover what is happening with Forest Rescue and many other campaigns.
Be part of the Canberra Forest Alliance meeting 5:30pm every Tuesday at Ground Swell (1/40 Mort St, Braddon, above Cornucopia Bakery)
Forest Rescue campaign work in the Wilderness Society's Sydney office
Give a slide show or a talk to let people in your school or community group know about the benifits of saving Badja and other precious native forests from logging.


	Forest Rescuer pointing to tree sit behind Fort Badja

Fundraising

Volunteer to be a fundraising koala
Conduct a letter writing stall to collect submissions to have Badja made a National Park and a wilderness area.
Organise a Fundraising Dinner, Benifit Gig or other event as finances are always an issue.

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Legal Information

The information in these pages is copied directly from the NSW Environmental Defenders Office website from their NSW Environmental Law Fact Sheet)
Protest in State forests (NSW Environmental Law Fact Sheet 33b)
Peaceful Protest and Your Rights (NSW Environmental Law Fact Sheet 33)
Getting Arrested and Convicted (NSW Environmental Law Fact Sheet 34)

Badja: Home | How to get there and what you'll need | Non Violent Action
Legal Information | Biomass | Media Releases

For more information, please contact:

Campaign Coordinator

The Wilderness Society Sydney Inc

Postal address: PO Box K249 Haymarket, NSW, 1240

Suite 402, Level 4, 64-76 Kippax St,
Surry Hills, NSW, 2010
Phone: 02 9282 9553

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