Protesters shut down seven logging coupes across Victoria on Tuesday as environmentalists and community members called for an end to native-forest logging.  Protesters used tactics including tree-sits, locking onto machinery and walking into logging coupes to halt logging at Mount Cole, Baw Baw, Toolangi, Big Pats Creek, Camberville, Lakes Entrance and Noojee.  State government logging agency VicForests said it respected the right to protest but was concerned for the safety of its staff and contractors.  Protesters stopped a total of 41 contractors from working, at a loss of $8000 a day per coupe, a spokesperson said. “We ask that protesters do not enter active coupes where heavy machinery operates and put themselves and our workers in harm’s way.” The forest protests place increasing pressure on VicForests, which lost a landmark court case last month when the Federal Court found it had unlawfully logged areas of critically endangered possum habitat.