Locals and wildlife carers near Glenbog State Forest, backed by experts from a coalition of conservation organisations including Humane World for Animals, will meet with the Forestry Corporation of NSW on March 12 to defend crucial habitat for the Endangered greater glider and the Vulnerable yellow-bellied glider.
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SYDNEY (March 9, 2026)—The fate of a critical “stronghold” population of Endangered greater gliders and Vulnerable yellow-bellied gliders in the southern NSW High Country will be decided this week as locals and wildlife carers meet with the Forestry Corporation of NSW in a last bid to halt their plans to log 515 hectares of Glenbog State Forest.
Located east of Cooma, approximately five hours south of Sydney and two hours south of Canberra, Glenbog State Forest provides crucial habitat to a rich diversity of native wildlife. Recent surveys have identified 112 hollows in the forest’s unique old-growth trees that greater gliders inhabit. Under current forestry rules, logging cannot occur within 50 metres of a known greater glider den.
Humane World for Animals Australia’s Program Manager, Wildlife, Dr Renae Charalambous said: “Continued logging in Glenbog State Forest will be disastrous for Endangered greater gliders and the other unique and remarkable animals who inhabit it.
“Both the greater glider and the yellow-bellied glider rely on the hollows of old-growth trees for shelter. Once these trees are logged, there’s simply nowhere for them to go. Glenbog State Forest is one of the last unprotected places where these species still survive side by side, and it should be safeguarded from further logging.”
Glenbog State Forest also supports a range of other native species including Endangered gang-gang cockatoos, Vulnerable flame robins and bare-nosed wombats, many of whom have been released into the area by wildlife rescuers, following extensive rehabilitation.
Local wildlife carers have documented the brutal and indiscriminate nature of the logging operations that have taken place in the area to date, including wombats being buried alive as their burrows are collapsed by machinery.
“We’re calling on the Forestry Corporation of NSW to do the right thing and urgently halt their plans for logging in Glenbog State Forest,” said Dr Charalambous. “The potential consequences are clear: logging here risks destroying crucial habitat for species that are already under significant pressure.”
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