Greater glider now endangered as logging, bushfires and global heating hit numbers

The cat-sized nocturnal marsupials, which are unique to Australia, live in areas from north Queensland to central Victoria

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One of the world's biggest gliding mammals - the once common greater glider - has been pushed closer to extinction and is now officially endangered.

The cat-sized gliding marsupial has been moved from vulnerable to endangered on the federal government's list of threatened species.