Bob Brown calls on Albanese to save threatened creatures

Peaceful local defenders have halted the approach of a bulldozer and an excavator moving in the demolish the contentious Gelorup Corridor woodland and wildlife near Bunbury in Western Australia.

It is understood that police have been called by the machinery operators.

Following yesterday’s on-site by hundreds of locals opposed to the demolition, Main Roads moved their machinery in this morning. “This is appalling. This woodland and its critically endangered Western Ringtail Possums and cockatoos should not be destroyed when there are options for the state government’s Bunbury Outer Ring Road to be built across nearby cleared land. The Albanese government has ultimate responsibility here. Minister for the Environment Tanya Plibersek should intervene to save the wildlife and rare plants in these woods,” former Greens leader Bob Brown, who has spent the weekend at Gelorup, said in Perth this morning.

“There are 20 people on site stopping machinery at the precious and threatened Gelorup corridor. People are determined to protect this woodland habitat and the critically endangered Western Ringtail Possums and other creatures who live here,” said Terri Sharp who is a local resident.