After a long and bitter fight, conservationists have hailed the passing of legislation to create the Great Koala National Park as a historic win for koalas, forests and the communities that fought to protect them.

NSW Greens MP and spokesperson for the environment and climate change Sue Higginson has called on the Australian Greens and Greens senators to vote against a motion by the Nationals that would cause the NSW Labor government to continue logging native forests in the Great Koala National Park.

An alarming report released by the Natural Resources Commission (NRC) in the leadup to National Threatened Species Day (today), identifies the extent of state forests occupied by endangered greater gliders has declined by two-thirds over 27 years, and within the remaining occupied habitat populations have collapsed by a similar amount.

Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.

The North East Forest Alliance says it's outrageous that yesterday the Forestry Corporation began logging the homes of another source koala population in the proposed Richmond River Koala Parks.

The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC), the state’s peak environmental advocacy organisation, is calling for urgent protection of native bushland after new government data shows land clearing rates remain out of control.

Native forest logging is again in the spotlight in NSW, following Monday night’s Four Corners investigation into Forestry Corporation NSW’s failure to protect nationally endangered species.

Spirits and voices were nearly as high as Sunday’s rain clouds over Lismore when people took to the streets calling for greater forest protection.

Environmental activists say they’ve temporarily stopped logging in Cherry Tree state forest near Casino today by locking onto machinery.

Twenty forest defenders protested at the Smithton Ta Ann mill yesterday, while more than 100 forest defenders are involved in frontline actions across three sites as part of Bob Brown Foundation’s Forest Resistance Tour.