NSW native forest logging up 175 per cent

Logging rates almost doubled in a year when koalas were listed as endangered, Jacqui Mumford says. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

Environmental groups are incensed logging in NSW native forests has doubled while endangered iconic species such as koalas are disappearing.

Nature Conservation Council CEO Jacqui Mumford says a new report from the Forestry Corporation shows that native forest logging is tearing through trees.