R-C-M-P say they have now arrested a total of 788 people outside blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island.
Police made another eight arrests yesterday to enforce the B-C Supreme Court injunction, saying protesters tried to dig trenches along a forest service road and parked vehicles to prevent officers from leaving.
In June, the B-C government approved the request of three Vancouver Island First Nations and deferred logging of about two-thousand hectares of old-growth forest in the Fairy Creek and central Walbran areas for two years, but the protests continue.
The protest group, Rain-forest Flying Squad, says little of the best old-growth forest remains in B-C and the deferrals fall short of protecting what’s left.
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