Editing Tree sitting (section)

=== New Zealand (Aotearoa) ===
* [[Native Forest Action]] used tree sitting during its campaign to save the [[West Coast, New Zealand]] native forests.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=McIntyre |first=Iain |title=Environmental blockading timeline, 1974-1997 |url=https://commonslibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/ENVIRONMENTAL-BLOCKADING-TIMELINE-1974-1997.pdf |access-date=6 April 2024 |website=Commons Social Change Library}}</ref>  In April 1997, the logging company, [[Timberlands West Coast Limited]] destroyed one of the sites by deliberately swinging a tree from a helicopter into it without ensuring that it was fully clear of protesters.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rampton, Sheldon |author-link=Sheldon Rampton |date=2000-08-12 |title=When Helicopters Attack: A Near Accident Leads To Coverup |url=http://www.prwatch.org/files/pdfs/prwatch/prwv7n1.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016070631/http://prwatch.org/files/pdfs/prwatch/prwv7n1.pdf |archive-date=2011-10-16 |access-date=2009-11-09 |publisher=Center for Media and Democracy: Prwatch.org}}</ref>  [[Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand|The Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand (CAA)]]  cleared the helicopter pilot of wrongdoing in a controversial judgment that appeared to have been interfered with, according to [[Secrets and Lies (book)|leaked internal documents]].  
* Tree sitting in 1978 (the first tree sitting action) led to the protection of what is now the [[Pureora Forest Park]] in New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Copyright NZ Native Forests Restoration Trust |title=NZ Native Forests Restoration Trust :: Our history |url=http://www.nznfrt.org.nz/index.php?page_id=111 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100125004104/http://www.nznfrt.org.nz/index.php?page_id=111 |archive-date=2010-01-25 |access-date=2009-11-09 |publisher=Nznfrt.org.nz}}</ref> Following a 100-person anti-logging protest in the [[Pureora Forest Park|Pureora Forest]], a group stayed on to climb and occupy trees on January 18, 1978. Three days later more treesitters arrived and logging was suspended for safety reasons before an indefinite hold was placed on January 24. A full logging ban was introduced three years later.<ref name=":2" />