Mt Albert tree protest: Occupation hits one month mark as fellers face judicial review

Protesters occupying Ōwairaka/Mt Albert will celebrate a "double banger" on Wednesday, Honour the Maunga spokeswoman Anna Radford says.

The group will have guarded the Auckland mountain's gate 24 hours a day for exactly a month. They have been barring entrance to an Auckland Council-approved tree felling operation which aimed to chop down 345 exotic trees between November 11 and mid December.

The milestone would coincide with an application being filed for judicial review of the Tūpuna Maunga Authority's (TMA) decision to remove the trees, Radford said.

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