An independent audit of Victoria’s state logging operations has found multiple problems, including failures to adequately survey for threatened species, identify old-growth forest or contain post-logging burns. … The FSC investigation by independent auditors found VicForests failed to survey for threatened species at both the coupe and landscape level, including consistently failing to detect and protect Leadbeater’s possums and greater gliders. Large, ecologically-mature trees with hollows – used for habitat by endangered species – were observed to have been harvested or pushed over … In August, the agency announced it had “decided to postpone” its attempt to gain FSC certification by the end of 2020, saying it was concerned it would not be fairly assessed because three of the council’s directors were involved in forest activism. Wilderness Society national campaigns director Amelia Young said that … it was “highly inappropriate” for VicForests to blame FSC board members for its failure to get the sustainability tick.