A group of about 80 activists from across the state climbed the steep mountain slopes in the Rubicon State Forest in Victoria鈥檚 Central Highlands on June 9 to highlight one of Victoria鈥檚 largest logged areas.
The group held a 25 metre-long banner saying 鈥淪ave the Rubicon 鈥 Stop the Logging鈥 and a second 13 metre-long banner saying 鈥淔orests for Life Not Logging鈥 as they stood in the devastated landscape.
Thirty environmental, scientific and recreation groups have called on the new Victorian government to create the Great Forest National Park.
The proposed park would add 355,000 hectares of protected forests to the existing 170,000 hectares of parks and protected areas in the Central Highlands of Victoria by amalgamating a group of smaller parks. The park would stretch from Healesville to Kinglake in the west, through to Baw-Baw plateau in the east and north to Eildon.