Glenbog State Forest in the Southern Highlands of NSW is a refuge, one of the last places in southern NSW where greater gliders and yellow-bellied gliders still thrive.  A cool, mist-laced “cloud forest” that generates its own climate, it offers sanctuary for many animals already pushed to the brink. 

This forest is not empty land waiting to be “harvested.” These trees and the ground they grow from is also home to gang-gang cockatoos, lyrebirds, flame robins and bare-nosed wombats just to name a few.  

But despite strong citizen science evidence of critical habitat, Forestry Corporation NSW (FCNSW) plans to destroy this habitat imminently, and reduce this thriving ecosystem to low value woodchips, pallets and firewood to be exported.

Tragically, the native animals living in Glenbog state forest are merely considered ‘collateral damage’ to the forestry industry, and there is no regulatory authority offering them protection.  

This forest supports critical populations of threatened greater gliders and yellow-bellied gliders. Yet FCNSW has identified only 3% of the greater glider den trees found by citizen scientists, meaning the vast majority of known glider habitat is not protected. 

At the same time, Glenbog contains exceptionally high densities of bare-nosed wombats, with over 950 mapped burrows. Tragically, wombats are not safe under current legislation, and all the wombats currently living in these burrows are at risk of being buried alive by heavy machinery with no enforceable protection. 

Recent citizen science surveys in April 2026 recorded: 

• 132 greater glider den trees (50m exclusion zones currently apply)  
• 7 large stick nests  
• 952 wombat burrows (no legal protections)  
• Multiple sightings of gang-gang cockatoos, flame robins, and lyrebirds  
• Sightings of squirrel gliders and yellow bellied gliders  
• 300+ potential hollow-bearing trees (no legal protections for a range of species who would be living inside them) 

Glenbog is a thriving complex habitat supporting hundreds of animals. The logging of this forest could mean the the loss of entire local populations of some native animals.

In 2024, public pressure from concerned community members led to FCNSW withdrawing from Tallaganda and Badja State Forests, protecting those ecosystems from logging.

With your help, Glenbog can be next.  

Please take this urgent action now and tell decision-makers to stop the destruction Glenbog State Forest  before it becomes another irreversible loss of NSW’s native habitat.