A koala at Bermagui State Forest
Possums, gliders and owls are among 400 species which depend on tree hollows in the south east forests. Most eucalypts do not form hollows until they are 150 to 180 years old. Large dens needed by animals such as possums and gliders are seldom found in trees less than 200 years old.
Logging native forest for woodchips is destroying the homes of forest dwelling native animals.
The loss of hollow-bearing trees is now officially identified in NSW as a key threatening process and logging recognised as one of the causes.
Bermagui and the other south east coastal forests are important for the survival of koalas on the far south coast.
These forests contain critical koala habitat and we cannot afford to lose them.
