Call for end to the logging of native forests
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 23:55 
Conservationists urge an end to native logging outside parliament.Conservationists have marched on Parliament calling on the State Government to stop logging in native forests.
"Stop the damage in our state forest, stop the damage to our threatened cockatoo habitat," the protesters chanted.
An alliance of conservation groups used World Forest Day to present the Environment Minister Bill Marmion with more than 5,000 letters urging action to protect endangered species.
They say the number of Carnaby's cockatoos and numbats are dwindling due to the Government's failure to protect wildlife.
The Wilderness Society's Peter Robertson says they will become extinct if the logging program is not changed.
"Unfortunately, we have a Premier who is completely clueless about Western Australia's unique natural environment and our wildlife and all he is concerned about is development and mining and he needs to change his priorities very quickly," he said.
Mr Marmion told the protesters the Government would consider the arguments put forward in the letters.
"We're going through a forest management plan review," he said.
"I would urge all those people to make sure they put in a submission."
The protesters said they were disappointed at the Government's unwillingness to act so far.