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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Adam Morton Climate and environment editor

Home of endangered marsupial hit by state-sanctioned logging in NSW, environmentalists say

GPS collars being deployed on the endangered greater glider in the Tallaganda State Forest, New South Wales.
GPS collars being deployed on the endangered greater glider in the Tallaganda State Forest, New South Wales. Photograph: WWF-Australia/Oliver Risi

Conservation groups have accused a New South Wales agency of logging one of the last known strongholds of the greater glider, an endangered marsupial species, and urged the state government to intervene.

Bob Debus, a former Labor environment minister and now chair of the group Wilderness Australia, said there was overwhelming evidence that a Forestry Corporation of NSW logging operation was “smashing into the middle” of forest that was home to a large population of greater gliders.

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