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

NSW forestry agency ordered to stop logging after greater glider found dead

Some estimates say greater gliders have lost 80% of their population in some areas.
Some estimates say greater gliders have lost 80% of their population in some areas. Photograph: Lisa Roberts

The state-owned New South Wales forestry agency has been ordered to immediately stop logging in parts of a state forest after the Environment Protection Authority found a dead greater glider – an endangered species – nearby.

Conservation groups had written to the state government and EPA to investigate Forestry Corporation logging in the Tallaganda state forest, east of Canberra, as it was one of the last known strongholds of the southern greater glider.

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