Environmental groups say they have discovered a 'dense' population of the endangered marsupials in an area of Tallaganda State Forest that was left unscathed by the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-2020.
abc.net.au/news/wwf-calls-to-pause-tallaganda-state-forest-logging-nsw-glider/102789078Environmental groups are calling for an immediate halt to logging in Tallaganda State Forest, southern New South Wales, after discovering a "crucial" habitat for the endangered greater glider.
The World Wildlife Fund has been working in the forest, about 80 kilometres west of Batemans Bay, after discovering an area leftThe group said it had discovered dozens of the large marsupials and a "stronghold" of habitat for them."It's a place where I've observed the highest densities of gliders than I've ever seen all up and down the east coast," she said.
The greater glider is known as Australia's largest gliding mammal, and its habitat stretches along the eastern seaboard through Victoria, NSW, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory.According to the WWF, its numbers have declined by up to 80 per cent in some areas over the last 20 years due to factors like bushfires and logging.
"This shows that the active management of forests under these rules, in concert with surrounding protected areas, is supporting greater glider populations," the FCNSW spokesperson said. "We are asking that work be stopped and that proper, decent, and publicly available surveys should be made in order to tell us what kind of damage logging would do to the glider population," he said.He said Wilderness Australia members had conducted their own surveys of the forest, finding dozens of "den" trees used by the gliders and spotting a "dense" population of them.
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