An endangered greater glider has been found dead near a logging operation in one of the last sections of habitat not burnt during Black Summer fires.
The state government’s environment watchdog has halted logging by the government-owned Forestry Corporation after an endangered greater glider was found dead 50 metres from a recently logged section of the Tallaganda State Forest.
Bob Debus, a former Labor state environment minister who is now chair of Wilderness Australia, said that though Forestry NSW claimed to have conducted a survey of the area and found just one greater glider den tree, a conservationist working with his group did a survey days ago and found three den trees close to the one mapped by FNSW, and each of them had gliders in it.
“Southern Greater Gliders are an endangered species and shelter in multiple tree cavities, known as ‘den trees’, over large distances. “The only reason the EPA has issued a Stop Work Order is because the community and I alerted them to the flagrant failure to afford proper protection for one of our most iconic and endangered species in NSW.
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