00:00Spotlights scan the tops of gums in the St Mary State Forest, south of Maribra.
00:07I've got one.
00:08Two beaming eyes reflect the light.
00:10These gliders are endangered, but markings on the trees show this area will soon be logged.
00:15My heart sank, and I just thought, I do not want to see this happen in this area.
00:20I don't know how I will bear to watch it happen.
00:22Gliders live in hollows.
00:24A lot of the species take up to about 150 years to start developing those hollows that are required,
00:28of large enough size that greater gliders need.
00:31In 1999, it was agreed that logging in this area, known as the Eastern Hardwoods, would stop at the end of 2024.
00:38But in 2019, that was extended by at least two years.
00:41Dr Tyrone Venn says that was done with good reason.
00:44We're producing as much timber as we were in the 1990s in Queensland.
00:50We've had no increase in timber production, but our population has grown a whopping 64%.
00:57But conservationists say the practice needs to end.
01:00I hope that this government will take a mature position and side with innovation and tourism
01:07over exploitation of these forests for timber.
01:10Selection harvesting systems in native forests in Queensland are highly regulated.
01:15Loggers must leave at least six habitat trees and two future habitat trees per hectare.
01:20East of St Mary, Boppel State Forest was logged last year.
01:23What we see here is a forest that's been managed for timber production in Queensland.
01:28And all around us here you can see straight, skinny trees.
01:31And while some have been left for habitat, there's a real lack of the gnarled old trees
01:35that have the hollows that can provide homes for gliders.
01:38They're so susceptible.
01:39So in any of those areas that they're getting degraded, we'll likely see localised extinctions of populations.
01:45Particularly if they really take out all those old trees.
01:48The state government says a new timber action plan will be announced this year.
01:53So in the year, we've voted to go under the contract.
01:55And if they're in some kind of a grant, they would think they're in our thành we actually
01:56as in a way.
01:57To go Кузara and at least 7o1-2ano, but the joint of the city is at the end.
01:59So they're looking for, they certainly have an impact that it's in the state.
02:00And so on the next day, you're moving to the district of the population.
02:02So we're looking for a part of this, OK.
02:03I'll have to look for it, they're looking for space.
02:04That's really a lot of a way, that's coming soon.
02:05I will have to look for this.
02:06We have to look for this.
02:07We can use for half a bit of a стол, that's coming to be an area.
02:08We need to take some kind of what we've got here.
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