AUSTRALIA — Loggers for the state government Forestry Corporation will no longer be required to search for endangered greater gliders and their den trees in known habitat areas, under changes to NSW Environment Protection Authority protocols. Instead, loggers will be compelled to protect 14 trees with hollows in them per hectare of forest, an increase from eight under previous rules, in a change the EPA chief executive Tony Chappel said would more effectively protect the animal. He said conducting surveys of the shy nocturnal animal in the past had proven difficult and unreliable. …Environment groups and the Greens have criticised the changes, saying they will lead to the deaths of more gliders. …Forestry Corporation has been criticised for conducting its surveys for the animals during the day, when they were sleeping in their hollows.