Home of endangered marsupial threatened by state-sanctioned logging in NSW, environmentalists say
by Adam Morton Climate and environment editor from on (#6E7WB)
Conservationists say Forestry Corporation of NSW logging operation is smashing into the middle' of forest home to the greater glider
Conservation groups have accused a New South Wales agency of logging one of the last known remaining strongholds of the greater glider, an endangered marsupial species, and urged the state government to intervene.
Bob Debus, a former Labor environment minister and now chair of the group Wilderness Australia, said there was overwhelming evidence that a Forestry Corporation of NSW logging operation was smashing into the middle" of forest that was home to a large population of greater gliders.
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