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Impacts of intensive native forest logging on the endangered Greater Glider in Queensland: A response to Eco Logical Australia Risk Assessment and Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Protection Measures

Authors: Aila I. KetoORCID logo & Keith Scott

23 June 2024

open-access publication of Australian Rainforest Conservation Society Inc

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62974/BXPW2062

Summary

  • It is clear that selective logging has a significant impact on the Greater Glider. Whereas the Protection Measures proposed by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) may produce a small decrease in the impact, DAF is proposing to continue significantly impacting this endangered species.
  • The application of a policy to balance jobs and the environment is inappropriate for an endangered species.
  • The overall approach of the risk assessment and DAF’s response does not appear to take account of the fact that the Greater Glider is already endangered and in serious decline.
  • The risk assessment found ongoing selective logging will seriously degrade 31–70% of greater glider foraging habitat resulting in up to 70% decline in population which will be essentially irreversible.
  • The risk assessment found ongoing selective logging will seriously degrade 31–70% of yellow-bellied glider foraging habitat resulting in up to 100% decline in population which will be essentially irreversible.
  • The literature review refers to the study by one of the authors of the risk assessment which concluded that 85% of basal area needs to be retained to maintain one Greater Glider per 3 ha in southern Queensland.
  • Despite the endangered status of the Greater Glider, the proposed Protection Measures will result in the retention of just one extra habitat recruitment tree per hectare in southern Queensland.
  • Logging will remove up to 50% of the canopy cover with all trees harvested being in the >40 cm DBH class, potentially removing close to all of the essential food source for the endangered Greater Glider in the logged area.
  • Greater gliders will be impacted by climate change and logging impacts will exacerbate the effect.
  • The Precautionary Principle must be applied in policy and management decisions.
  • 76% of greater glider habitat and 14% of potential habitat is of major commercial timber value.
  • 48% of greater glider habitat may be subject to logging (within forestry management planning units).
  • 66% of greater glider habitat is highly or very highly disturbed.
  • 48% of yellow-bellied glider habitat is highly or very highly disturbed.

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