Greater gliders will be wiped out if NSW forestry agency’s surveys not urgently revised, campaigners say

Forest Alliance of NSW report says current regulations are a ‘licence to kill’ endangered species in four state forests where logging is scheduled

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Forest campaigners are demanding an immediate moratorium on logging in endangered greater glider habitat in New South Wales after their surveys detected more than triple the number of gliders than what was recorded by the state-owned forestry agency.

The Forest Alliance of NSW said current regulations are a “licence to kill” the species, whose populations have already plummeted in the aftermath of the black summer bushfires.

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