A 70-year-old man who spent six nights camped 20 metres above a forest floor protesting the prescribed burning of giant red tingle trees in WA’s south has succeeded in halting an “imminent” burn. About 500 hectares of tingle forest at Mount Clare, in the Walpole-Nornalup National Park, 400 kilometres south of Perth, was due to be burnt by the Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions (DBCA). The protest was sparked after the DBCA began preliminary ground works at the Mount Clare block in October.
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