Government-contracted loggers have vastly underestimated the density of endangered greater glider populations in NSW forests, before approving plans to log forests where more than 800 of the protected species were found. Surveys conducted by community conservationists documented more than 10 times the number of critical glider “den trees”, and more than three times the number of gliders themselves, compared to those found by Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) in its mandated pre-logging surveys. The logging in those forests is planned to continue despite the regulator being told about the sightings.