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Environment
Tracey Ferrier

Logging backflip 'won't save gliders from extinction'

Conservationists say a backflip by the EPA will not be enough to save gliders from extinction. (HANDOUT/WWF AUSTRALIA)

A backflip on logging rules in NSW's native forests won't save endangered greater gliders from the timber industry or from extinction, experts say.

The Environment Protection Authority announced it would dump a specific requirement for the Forestry Corporation to search for and protect greater glider den trees before logging commences.

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