Save Glenbog from logging

Glenbog, 45 minutes northwest of Bega, is a rare high-elevation forest. NSW Forestry Corporation plans to log two areas that are vital strongholds for Greater Gliders and Yellow-bellied Gliders.

In January 2026, logging began here under the guise of a "roading operation". After taking 16 truckloads of trees, the machines left, but now they want to return.

Glenbog is one of southern NSW's most important wildlife refuges. Citizen scientists have recorded high densities of threatened gliders, hundreds of wombat burrows and many hollow-bearing trees.

Citizen scientists found over 122 Greater Glider den trees in Glenbog. Forestry Corporation found just four, a clear example of the regulatory failures across native forest logging.

Logging elsewhere in Glenbog in 2014 may have buried up to 150 wombats in collapsed or sealed burrows. The area now planned for logging holds over 900 known burrows.

This high-elevation forest helps wildlife survive extreme heat, bushfires and drought. Losing Glenbog would damage an entire ecosystem that is becoming increasingly rare.

Most timber logged here will become export woodchips. NSW native forest logging loses money and relies on government subsidies, so taxpayers are effectively funding this destruction.