Environment summit taking place in Sydney while greater glider habitat is logged is ‘bullshit’, advocates say

The greater glider – Australia’s largest gliding possum – resides in the Bulga state forest, inland from Port Macquarie, NSW, where it is threatened by logging. Photograph: Matt Wright

Forest campaigners have accused the federal government of hypocrisy for hosting a global nature-positive summit in Sydney while logging resumed in public forest 400km away in mid-north New South Wales.

The NSW Forestry Corporation has started its harvesting operations in Bulga state forest, inland from Port Macquarie. The area is a stronghold for threatened species including endangered koalas and the endangered greater glider – Australia’s largest gliding possum.