Mounties make 7 more arrests at protest over old-growth logging on Vancouver Island

Remote forest areas of southern Vancouver Island were the scene of more arrests as police continue to enforce a British Columbia Supreme Court injunction against anti-old growth logging protesters camped in the wilderness.

RCMP Cpl. Chris Manseau said seven people were arrested Wednesday, bringing the total number who have been arrested to 14since Tuesday.

In a news release Wednesday afternoon, Manseau said four were arrested for breaching the injunction order and a fifth person was arrested for obstruction after allegedly failing to abide by the lawful direction of police.

Later in the evening, Manseau saidtwo people who locked themselves to a bridge in the area hadalso been arrested.

Manseau said the person arrested on Wednesday for obstruction identified themselfas a journalist.

Dozens of Mounties have converged on camps along remote logging roads south of Lake Cowichan to enforce the civil injunction to allow the Teal-Jones Groupto start logging activities.

Protesters have been camping and staging blockades in forest areas between Port Renfrew and Lake Cowichan in a bid to stop logging in the region, which they say is home to the last unprotected, intact old-growth forest valley on southern Vancouver Island.