In 2024 we saved two key greater glider strongholds from logging.
In 2025, we intend to save them all.
Over the coming year the NSW Government is likely to announce the single most significant decision for forest biodiversity ever made. The fate of two million hectares of state forests, along with dozens of threatened species - koalas and greater gliders included - will be at stake.
The Government’s Forestry Industry Action Plan will decide either to end native forest logging on public land forever, or to continue it for decades to come. It’s fair to say that large parts of our forest biodiversity will not survive the latter option.
Forest biodiversity is in decline, and many healthy populations are now surrounded by a sea of degraded habitat from which they have largely disappeared.
2024 Recap:
As we look back over 2024, we are immensely proud of the campaign achievements that flowed from our field work and reporting actions and from the substantial lobbying we conducted around Parliament House and various government departments. These included:
- Elevating awareness of the greater glider in the political and public spheres;
- Focussing attention upon the intensive logging that has continued within the boundaries of the proposed Great Koala National Park; and
- Saving two key greater glider strongholds - Tallaganda State Forest and Badja State Forest - from immediate logging.
Our efforts have laid the groundwork for another successful campaign year in 2025 – when the 50-year confrontation between conservationists and loggers is likely to come to a final conclusion.
We will fight to the last koala and greater glider.
A visual summary of 2024
This baby greater glider in Badja State Forest, outside its den tree, was at imminent risk from logging. Following our intervention over the last few months, it is safe for now.
Bob Debus in Tallaganda state forest during a spotlighting trip. Working with South East Forest Rescue and WWF-Australia, we found 168 den trees in Tallaganda and Badja State Forest. Each of which created a small, strategic conservation area that prevented logging.
Project Manager, Ella, spotlighting in Badja. Wilderness Australia undertook around 1,000 hours of field work in 2024 - day and night, in rain and snow.
Operations Manager, Andrew, stands beside a tree in the greater glider stronghold where Glenbog State Forest adjoins the South East Forests National Park. We will be focused on protecting this area, with ten logging compartments scheduled for harvesting, over the next few months.
Our reports published this year, some in collaboration with other groups, advocate for the protection of native forests and the wildlife that call them home.
Koala and baby in the proposed Great Koala National Park, which is being logged intensively even while it is being assessed for protection. Our report brought this logging to light and received international attention. Photo copyright: Paul Hilton.
You can also see a video snapshot of our year spent saving NSW native forests here.
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