Stop Logging Glider Habitat
Twenty years ago, greater gliders were a common sight throughout NSW. Now, they face extinction and their habitat is still being logged.
A 50-metre buffer zone is legally required around any greater glider den tree. However, Forestry Corporation NSW is systematically failing to survey for glider. Over the past year citizen science has recorded 1,338 glider dens, while Forestry Corporation only recorded 50. These are some of the most important forests for endangered greater gliders, as well as gang gang cockatoos and other hollow dependent species.
Greater gliders thrive in intact healthy forest, not the fragmented mess left behind after the logging trucks roll through. That’s why it’s time to protect greater glider habitat.
We call on the NSW Government to:
- Immediately pause logging in NSW state native forest with high densities of listed endangered species, including koalas and greater gliders.
- Institute a 100-metre exclusion zone around any greater glider sighted within a state forest that is due to be logged.
- Direct the EPA to issue stop-work orders as soon as evidence emerges of gliders living within forests that are being logged.
- Increase the penalties for illegal logging activity, including the loss of licensing to repeat offenders.
- Update survey methods to include drone technology to accurately reflect density of endangered species
- Stop allowing native animals and their habitat the be destroyed by ending native forest logging.