Conservationists say Forestry Corporation of NSW logging operation is ‘smashing into the middle’ of forest home to the greater glider
Conservation groups have accused a New South Wales agency of logging one of the last known remaining strongholds of the greater glider, an endangered marsupial species, and urged the state government to intervene.
“It’s the only place I’ve ever seen where greater gliders were the dominant species,” Ashman said. “I’ve never seen anything like the density [of the population]. In most other places where greater gliders were once abundant they are disappearing. To know this habitat is being logged is extremely upsetting.”
It was particularly badly affected by the 2019-20 bushfires, which damaged its habitat in east Gippsland and southern NSW. Scientists say its population has fallen by about 80% in 20 years in some areas. Logging in Tallagamba state forest that is threatening the habitat of a large population of greater gliders.The corporation said monitoring prior to logging led to it “finding almost 400 greater gliders”. It said this showed that “active management of forests under these rules, in concert with surrounding protected areas, is supporting greater glider populations”.
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