AUSTRALIA — Conservation efforts in NSW to stop more species becoming extinct in the wake of this season’s unparalleled bushfires require more than half a billion dollars over the coming four years. Emergency intervention to save as many as 30 endangered species alone needs $15 million this year and $35 million in both the 2021-22 and 2022-23 fiscal years, according to a spreadsheet circulating among state government agencies and obtained by the Sun-Herald. The leaked requests come as Forestry Corporation resumed logging in unburnt refuges in the Styx River State Forest despite risks to species including nationally endangered Hastings River mice. Chris Gambian, chief executive of the Nature Conservation Council, said the logging would have “immensely negative ecological impacts” given so little of the Styx River forest was unburnt.