Environment Groups Urge NSW Government to Suspend Logging Operations in Areas with High Glider Records

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Environment groups have called on the NSW government to halt logging operations in areas with high glider records. The state-owned Forestry Corporation has been ordered to stop work in parts of Flat Rock state forest after the Environment Protection Authority identified endangered greater glider habitat nearby. The NSW Greens have reiterated their calls to end native forest logging, while environment groups have urged the government to suspend operations in other areas with high glider records.

Environment groups have urged the NSW government to suspend logging operations in areas with high glider records . State-owned Forestry Corporation must halt operations in parts of Flat Rock state forest, months after similar issues raised in Tallaganda has again been ordered to stop work in an area of forest after the Environment Protection Authority identified endangered greater glider habitat nearby.

It has prompted the NSW Greens to reiterate calls for a plan to end native forest logging, while environment groups urged the Minns government to immediately suspend operations in other parts of the state with high glider records. The regulator issued the direction for the forestry agency to stop harvesting operations in parts of the Flat Rock state forest, near Ulladulla on the south coast, after a community complaint

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