A government-owned logging company is conducting a controversial experiment expected to kill native animals that are already heading toward extinction, the ABC can reveal.
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| Ed Hill from the GECO Environment Centre at a logging site in an area of East Gippsland that is home to the threatened Greater Glider. |
VicForests is owned by the Victorian Government and logs native forests for profit under exemptions to federal environment law.
It is now logging parts of East Gippsland forest at different intensities to measure survival rates of the threatened greater gliders that call it home.
VicForests argued the research would assist the conservation of the species, but acknowledged it was likely to kill some of them.
Read Michael Slezak’s ABC News story - “VicForests says experiment 'very likely' to kill threatened glider, continues research.”
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