Logging Changes Leave Glider in Hot Water

Logging has been suspended in 14 NSW forests amid a bitter row over protections for Australia’s largest gliding marsupial. The greater glider was listed as an endangered species after the Black Summer bushfires wiped out more than a third of its habitat but the government’s Forestry Corporation continues to log glider habitat in state forests. Conservationists have long accused the corporation of failing to properly search for gliders and their den trees, and last year the logging outfit admitted it had been looking for the nocturnal species during the day. In February, the Environment Protection Authority imposed new rules requiring spotlight searches to be carried out at night, with each transect to begin no more than one hour after sunset....