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Emily Woods

Logging agency failing to protect possums

A judge says logging poses a threat of serious and irreversible damage to greater gliders. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

Victoria's logging agency is not adequately protecting endangered possums and many of them will probably die during timber harvesting, a court has found.

Two environment groups took VicForests to the Supreme Court, arguing the agency is legally obliged to identify and conserve two endangered possum species when logging in state forests.

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