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Environment
Tracey Ferrier

EPA backs down on 'dangerous' new logging rules in NSW

The Black Summer bushfires wiped out more than a third of the greater glider's habitat. (HANDOUT/WWF AUSTRALIA)

NSW's environmental watchdog has backed away from new logging rules after experts warned they would fast track the greater glider's extinction.

New rules announced last week ditched a requirement for the Forestry Corporation to search for and protect the endangered animal's den trees, with a 50-metre buffer of bush around each one.

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