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Logging in the Nambucca State
Forest has been temporarily put

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on hold while Indigenous elders
prepare a landmark legal

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challenge against the Forestry
Corporation. Today's

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announcement was celebrated by
hundreds of anti logging

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protesters who want to preserve
the environment for future

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generations.

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This morning, Protesters
gathered in the Nambucca

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state forest to celebrate the
halt to logging. Members of the

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Gumbaynggirr community won 
reprieve while they prepare a

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legal challenge. We've got an agreement from Forestry Corporation

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to hold back to allow the
court proceedings to be commenced to allow the cla

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claims made by the  Gumbaynggirr people to protect thier sacred sites

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thier song lines. The court case is being launched on

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behalf of the local Indigenous
community, the animals and the

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trees and everything in this,
we looked after for thousands

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and thousands of years. All
we're asking now is to stop

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destroying our country. This is
landmark litigation and it goes

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to show the Gumbaynggirr  people and
here today, you can see that

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there's socially distanced support from the
rest of the community If it's

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to interrupt the logging is
been going on for more than a

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month and I feel like
everyone's coming together and

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it's really exciting. I feel
like there's a really amazing

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energy the air. We've got
spirit and ancestors all around

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us. We have the people that
came in to support us. It's

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incredible. While the
forest is a  significant

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place for Indigenous people.
David Shoebridge says. It's also

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critical habitat for koala and
other wildlife. We need to have

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these biodivesity hot spots to allow
that biodiversity to go back

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into those forest have been so
savage in the fires. Court

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proceedings to end the logging
will begin this week. Dennis

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