Former Greens leader Bob Brown has been released on bail after being arrested during a community protest over logging in northwest Tasmania.

Mr Brown was arrested on Monday at the site of Forestry Tasmania's logging project in Lapoinya and taken to Burnie police station.

"I didn't go with the intention of being arrested, but when I saw the destruction, I had to take a stand," he told AAP after his release.

He has been charged with failing to comply with a direction to leave a business access area, and has been banned from going back to the Lapoinya logging area under the terms of his bail conditions.

Mr Brown said the area, including a bridle trial, was used by nature lovers before loggers moved in.

"It's now a bulldozed highway, a logging road with tree ferns, trees and shrubbery flattened, and bare earth.

"And they're getting ready to log the forest next door."

The former senator is urging federal environment minister Greg Hunt to protect Lapoinya's rare and endangered wildlife.

Mr Brown was arrested just before midday after police arrived at the protest and asked him to leave.

He refused.

Former Greens leader Bob Brown. (AAP)

"I made that stand as I felt a real obligation not to turn my back on the place and leave," he told AAP.

Tasmania Police has declined to comment on Mr Brown's arrest, but a spokeswoman said they would release a statement later in the day.

The protest in Lapoinya began last week as Forestry Tasmania prepared to commence logging the area's regrowth forest.

Steven Chaffer from the Bob Brown Foundation says the arrest reflects new "draconian" laws in Tasmania which prevent protests at workplaces.

Mr Brown is due to appear before Burnie Magistrates Court on March 15.