Victoria’s Supreme Court has found state-owned logging agency VicForests failed to follow the law and protect endangered greater gliders and yellow-bellied gliders when logging native forests. | perkinsmiki
Greater gliders have recently been federally listed as endangered.VicForests has been ordered to pay costs.Victoria’s Supreme Court has found state-owned logging agency VicForests failed to follow the law and protect endangered greater gliders and yellow-bellied gliders when logging native forests.
Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek recently upgraded the listing for greater gliders from vulnerable to endangered because habitat destruction from logging and land clearing for agriculture has turned the large gliding possum into a rarity. Activists from the groups Kinglake Friends of the Forest and Environmental East Gippsland celebrate their Supreme Court victory over VicForests with their legal representatives.
“VicForests’ current approach falls short of what the precautionary principle requires for the conservation of greater gliders and yellow-bellied gliders.“The ecological evidence was that those gliders living in [logging] coupes that are harvested in accordance with VicForests’ current practices will probably die as a result of the harvesting operations.”
Justice Richards ruled that VicForests should pay costs to the environment groups, with an amount to be determined at the next court hearing.
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