Victorian state logging company failed to protect threatened gliders, court finds

Greater gliders – one of the world’s biggest gliding mammals – had their national threat level increased to endangered earlier this year. Photograph: Dr Peter Smith/PR IMAGE

Victoria’s state logging company has failed to protect threatened species of gliders, and its methods to check for them before logging are inadequate, the state’s supreme court has found.

Justice Melinda Richards ordered VicForests on Friday to carry out full surveys of areas for greater gliders and yellow-bellied gliders before logging, and to include buffers around habitats.