Miranda is a fighter. She had been on protests before, on one occasion scaling Sydney Opera House and unfurling a banner to protest forest destruction. But when she ascending what she dubbed the “Observer Tree” last December, she knew she was ratcheting up the protest. What she did not imagine at the time was that she would still be up the tree one year later.
It is thanks to Miranda and many NGOs in Australia and around the world that the message is getting out about the systematic destruction of the forests. Under one guise or another, logging companies are chopping down forests around the world. The hype is this is “sustainable,” the reality is old growth forests are being felled at an alarming rate.
Miranda is one woman up a tree. But she is becoming a powerful symbol. And she might be 60 meters off the ground but she is connected to the Internet.
This Friday, December 14, Miranda will be having a Livestream event in which environmentalists including Derrick Jensen and world record tree sitter Julia Butterfly Hill will be speaking to the world – not only about forests in Miranda’s neck of the woods but forests at risk around the world.
Join Miranda on her website Observer Tree or through her Facebook Page.
