Harvesting in Bulga state forest, inland from Port Macquarie, is just 400km from global nature-positive summit the government is hosting
The greater glider – Australia’s largest gliding possum – resides in the Bulga state forest, inland from Port Macquarie, NSW, where it is threatened by logging.The greater glider – Australia’s largest gliding possum – resides in the Bulga state forest, inland from Port Macquarie, NSW, where it is threatened by logging.
The state-owned forestry agency has been met with resistance from local forest advocates, who have maintained a presence at the forest since last week.Susie Russell, vice-president of the North East Forest Alliance and a resident who has spent decades advocating for the protection of the Bulga region’s forests, said 11 campaigners had been arrested so far.
Russell said even if exclusion zones were retained around greater glider den trees, harvesting would still occur within the gliders’ home range and within the habitat of numerous other endangered species. “Our job is not just to do the work, but to take others along with us. To build coalitions, with unlikely allies as well as our traditional partners,” Plibersek told delegates.
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