LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. - Police say 55 people were arrested Tuesday as they enforced a British Columbia court injunction ordering the removal of blockades aimed at preventing old-growth logging on southwestern Vancouver Island.
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Police used jackhammers and pickaxes on Wednesday as they tried to remove a group of protesters who had secured themselves to the ground in a demonstration against old-growth logging on Vancouver Island.
Two protesters locked themselves under a pile of rocks to block the path of loggers near Port Renfrew. [Norman Galimski]
A baby grabs the outstretched finger of an RCMP officer at a police checkpoint near Port Renfrew as tree sitters protested old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island. As of Wednesday, police had arrested an estimated 112 people while enforcing a court injunction. [Norman Galimski]
Seniors protest the logging of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Wednesday. [Norman Galimski]
A protester is locked into place with a sleeping dragon, a homemade contraption to trap a persons arm in the ground to block the path of loggers, near Port Renfrew. [Norman Galimski]